Wine, DC120 cam, and OneTouch Scanner problems.

[Jim Sims]

I've read all I can find, including searching in the archives, and am
still stuck.

I have dloaded Wine, and clicked on the icon of the RPM file to install,
and Wine still won't work.  It only gives me an "open with" box when I
try to access Notebook.exe.

My DC120 camera is found with no problem when booting into "root" but
not found in user boot into KDE.  The "Digital Camera Tool" won't "add"
it, and I don't know what port to list.  It is a serial port, and there
are COM1 & COM2 on my motherboard.

I have a Visioneer OneTouch 6600 USB scanner.  It is found in my USB
components, but won't work or configure.

Both the scanner and camera work fine in Win98SE, but I am trying to get
away from Win altogether.

Help?
Jim

[James Kosin]

Dear Jim Sims,
> My DC120 camera is found with no problem when booting into "root" but not

found in user boot into KDE.  The "Digital Camera Tool" >won't "add" it, and
I don't know what port to list.  It is a serial port, and there are COM1 &
COM2 on my motherboard.

This is probably a simple permissions issue.  By default root is the only
user that has authority to talk to hadware.  Go to a terminal as root and
type the following:
    ls -l /dev/ttyS?

You should get something back that says for each entry:
    crw-rw----    1    root    uucp    .....

The problem is here that root and group uucp are the only users allowed to
read and write to the comport.
You can fix this one of two ways.  (1) change the permissions on the serial
ports to allow everyone to read/write to them, or (2) add the users that
need access to the group uucp.

(1) to change the permissions:
    chmod +r+w /dev/ttyS0  (for com 1)
    chmod +r+w /dev/ttyS1  (for com 2)

(2) to add users to the uucp group, use the tool to configure groups... or
'usermod -G uucp <user-login>'

Good Luck on the other questions....
James Kosin

[Jim Sims]

I have set permissions to all for both Com1 & 2, and even logged off and
on again.  No luck.  How do you list the serial ports Com1 & 2 in
Linux?  I have tried what I think is everything on port settings in "add
camera".  I keep getting the message of "can't initialize camera, check
your port settings".
Jim

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 12:51, James Kosin wrote:
> Dear Jim Sims,
> > My DC120 camera is found with no problem when booting into "root" but not
>
> found in user boot into KDE.  The "Digital Camera Tool" >won't "add" it, and
> I don't know what port to list.  It is a serial port, and there are COM1 &
> COM2 on my motherboard.
>
> This is probably a simple permissions issue.  By default root is the only
> user that has authority to talk to hadware.  Go to a terminal as root and
> type the following:
>     ls -l /dev/ttyS?
>
> You should get something back that says for each entry:
>     crw-rw----    1    root    uucp    .....
>
> The problem is here that root and group uucp are the only users allowed to
> read and write to the comport.
> You can fix this one of two ways.  (1) change the permissions on the serial
> ports to allow everyone to read/write to them, or (2) add the users that
> need access to the group uucp.
>
> (1) to change the permissions:
>     chmod +r+w /dev/ttyS0  (for com 1)
>     chmod +r+w /dev/ttyS1  (for com 2)
>
> (2) to add users to the uucp group, use the tool to configure groups... or
> 'usermod -G uucp <user-login>'
>
> Good Luck on the other questions....
> James Kosin

[Jeff Vian]

Jim Sims wrote:
> I have set permissions to all for both Com1 & 2, and even logged off 
> and on again.  No luck.  How do you list the serial ports Com1 & 2 in 
> Linux?  I have tried what I think is everything on port settings in 
> "add camera".  I keep getting the message of "can't initialize camera, 
> check your port settings".
> Jim

On a serial port there are setting such as baud rate, parity, stop bits 
that also define the communication.  If your camera is not set the same 
as the serial port they cannot communicate.
Your manual for the camera should tell you what the settings are 
expected to be, then set the same on the serial port.
> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 12:51, James Kosin wrote:
> > /Dear Jim Sims,
> > > My DC120 camera is found with no problem when booting into "root" but not
> >
> > found in user boot into KDE.  The "Digital Camera Tool" >won't "add" it, and
> > I don't know what port to list.  It is a serial port, and there are COM1 &
> > COM2 on my motherboard.
> >
> > This is probably a simple permissions issue.  By default root is the only
> > user that has authority to talk to hadware.  Go to a terminal as root and
> > type the following:
> >    ls -l /dev/ttyS?
> >
> > You should get something back that says for each entry:
> >    crw-rw----    1    root    uucp    .....
> >
> > The problem is here that root and group uucp are the only users allowed to
> > read and write to the comport.
> > You can fix this one of two ways.  (1) change the permissions on the serial
> > ports to allow everyone to read/write to them, or (2) add the users that
> > need access to the group uucp.
> >
> > (1) to change the permissions:
> >    chmod +r+w /dev/ttyS0  (for com 1)
> >    chmod +r+w /dev/ttyS1  (for com 2)
> >
> > (2) to add users to the uucp group, use the tool to configure groups... or
> > 'usermod -G uucp <user-login>'
> >
> > Good Luck on the other questions....
> > James Kosin
> >
> > /

[John Thompson]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:51:16 -0500
James Kosin  wrote:
> > My DC120 camera is found with no problem when booting into "root" but
> > not found in user boot into KDE.  The "Digital Camera Tool" >won't
> > "add" it, and I don't know what port to list.  It is a serial port, 
> > and there are COM1 & COM2 on my motherboard.
> This is probably a simple permissions issue.  By default root is the
> only user that has authority to talk to hadware.  Go to a terminal as
> root and type the following:
>     ls -l /dev/ttyS?
>
> You should get something back that says for each entry:
>     crw-rw----    1    root    uucp    .....
>
> The problem is here that root and group uucp are the only users
> allowed to read and write to the comport.
> You can fix this one of two ways.  (1) change the permissions on the
> serial ports to allow everyone to read/write to them, or (2) add the
> users that need access to the group uucp.
>
> (1) to change the permissions:
>     chmod +r+w /dev/ttyS0  (for com 1)
>     chmod +r+w /dev/ttyS1  (for com 2)
>
> (2) to add users to the uucp group, use the tool to configure
> groups... or'usermod -G uucp <user-login>'

Don't forget that pam may change these permissions back when you log out.  If this happens you'll have to edit /etc/security/console.perms to make these the default settings.

[John Thompson]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:30:13 -0400
Jim Sims  wrote:
> I've read all I can find, including searching in the archives, and am
> still stuck.
>
> I have dloaded Wine, and clicked on the icon of the RPM file to
> install, and Wine still won't work.  It only gives me an "open with"
> box when I try to access Notebook.exe.

I've never had good luck with Wine; sorry.  If there are Win programs you really need to use in linux, "Win4Lin" is very good and not too expensive: http://www.netraverse.com
> My DC120 camera is found with no problem when booting into "root" but
> not found in user boot into KDE.  The "Digital Camera Tool" won't
> "add" it, and I don't know what port to list.  It is a serial port,
> and there are COM1 & COM2 on my motherboard.

I've only used USB cameras with linux, but this sounds like a permissions problem.
> I have a Visioneer OneTouch 6600 USB scanner.  It is found in my USB
> components, but won't work or configure.

Bad news, I'm afraid.  My mum has one of these, and we could never even get it to work in Win2k, let alone linux.  The sane project reports all Visioneer models as "unspported:"

http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#VISIONEER

Maybe donate the Visioneer to a local charity and pick up an Epson scanner instead.  Epson actually collaborates with the sane project to develop linux drivers for their scanners.  You can't beat that!