Re: Making hotplugging my camera work

On Sunday 31 December 2006 02:02, Wayne Topa wrote:

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.

I am running debian SID

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.

Yes - same version as me

My Olympus C-745UZ works fine using the mass storage driver.


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.

My Casio is one that is of the USB mass storage type (ie it doesn't need
a special driver). If I set things up manually that works fine.

What I am talking about is the automatic recognition when you plug them
in.

I know this thread is drifting towards the photo packages on kde or
gnome, but I suspect the problem could be with the interaction with
udev/hal and the application.

Somewhere (and this is what I am finding hard to find) hal should have
the device properties for the camera. It should know its a camera and
that its has storage of type mass storage.

Yet - if I do

lshal | grep 'camera'

when the camera is plugged I don't get any lines that match. That seems
wrong - indeed, I sort of expect behind the scenes for hal to mount the
device on /media/camera (or something similar - perhaps /media/sdg1,
since /dev/sdg1 is the camera's picture partition).

On the otherhand - kde knows to suggest digikam as a potential
application, so its getting the fact it is a camera from somewhere

There seems some random hal policy file in /etc/hal and some more what
looks like configuration files in /usr/share/hal

But I cant find any information about which is the right place for me to
add the information about





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

Wayne

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