Re: Making hotplugging my camera work

Alan Chandler(alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) is reported to have said:
On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:32, Paul E Condon wrote:
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:04:01AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
Can someone explain the processes that occur when I hot plug my
camera in and kde pops up a dialog asking whether I want to
download to digiKam, or open in a new window.
...
I'm not an expert, but this may help:
Cameras handle off-loading pictures in two different ways. The more
fancy cameras have special proprietary protocols for data transfer,
and give the user/owner special control options, but they require
specialized software. Less expensive cameras simply fake a $soft FAT
file system and let you use the file copy functions of your computer
to grab the pictures. Part of digikam is a collection of cloned
drivers for the expensive cameras.

You misunderstand my question.

I understand all that. However, when I plug my camera in, KDE pops up a
dialog box saying new hardware found what you you like to do. One
choice is to use digikam.

In the past when this has happened (with cameras which emulate usb mass
storage and therefore do not need special drivers) digikam has put up a
dialog box with thumbnails of all pictures in the camera, and an offer
to select and download these into an album.

With my new camera (which has this same support) it fails whilst trying
what show pictures it has in the camera. The udev-hal-dbus chain is
not working correctly because the mount point /media/sdg1 does not seem
to have been created.

Furthermore - when I try and use udev to make the camera device
have /dev/camera as its device, kde's dialog box pops up the first time
after a reboot when I plug the device in, but not again when I unplug
it and plug it in again. If I do not have a udev rule to alter things
it does pop up a dialog box every time.

In order to debug and track down what is not working, I am asking how
the udev-hal-dbus chain interacts with kde and digikam, and where to
look for configuration parameters so I can figure out what is not
working due to configuration problems and what might be a bug in kde
(or hal ...).

This may not apply to you, as you didn't say what version of digikam or
Debian, your running, but I have a problem like yours with version
0.9.0~beta3-3 of digikan on a testing box.

Prior to this version it found, and used, my Kodak CX-4230 without any
problem. Now it can't access it.

As I got my wife a new Qlympus FE-130 for Xmas, I tried to see if this
version worked with it, and it didn't, so I booted my Sid box which
uses digikam_2%3a0.8.2-3_i386.deb. It does not yet, handle the
Olympus, but the Kodak is again working as usual on this version of
digikam.

I have noticed that, in almost every new version of digikan, something
that worked before, doesn't in the new version. So much so that I am
trying to find something to replace it and had not used it for months,
prior to getting the Olympus.


:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND & New Year :-)
Wayne

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