You wrote: >I have an alva connected bia usb to my computer but after a few minutes of >activity, it quits. Root can access the device but a normal user can't. >Someone suggested I mount the usb devfs as read/write. The question is where is >hotplug/libusb mounting the usb system and what is the best way to re-mount it? try fixing the usbfs line in fstab like this: usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs mode=666,defaults 0 0 That will force the file system to be mounted with read/write access for everybody.