Re: [SLE] Digital camera and hotplugging

From: William S Fulton (wsf_at_fultondesigns.co.uk)
Date: 07/04/05

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To: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>

    Marcus Meissner wrote:
    > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:53:14PM +0100, William S Fulton wrote:
    >>When plugging in an Olympus C-460 Zoom camera, two instances of
    >>Konqueror appear. One points to the URL media:/camera with one item -
    >>Olympus C-2040Z and the other to /media/usbdisk. If I use the
    >>/media/usbdisk, then I can enter the folders and view my pictures and
    >>all is well. However, if I click on the first instance, it takes me to
    >>camera://Olympus C-2040Z@[usb:]/ and a message dialog box saying "Could
    >>not read file Unspecified error." I have to reboot the computer then in
    >>order to see the pictures in /media/usbdisk.
    >>
    >>Looking at the logs in /var/log/messages, the following appears when I
    >>go to camera://Olympus C-2040Z@[usb:]/
    >>
    >>Jul 3 17:14:09 jaguar kernel: usb 1-1: usbfs: interface 0 claimed while
    >>'kio_kamera' sets config #1
    >>Jul 3 17:14:09 jaguar hal-subfs-mount[8972]: Mount point /media/usbdisk
    >>got removed.
    >>
    >>The SUSE manual suggests looking at
    >>http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php to see if the camera
    >>is supported. It is not listed here. Some questions:
    >>
    >>1) Is there a way to configure it so that it is supported?
    >
    > It is supported already.
    I guess it is in the cvs version, although I couldn't find it when I looked.

    >
    > The second folder (with /media/usbdisk) would have worked. This uses
    > USB mass storage, no need for gphoto.
    >
    Thanks, it does do everything I need.

    >>2) What does the camera:/ URL do? I can't google for this term as Google
    >>ignores the colon in the search :(
    >
    > The first one (camera:/) is the KDE kio ioslave, which refers to
    > libgphoto2 support.
    >
    > It uses a different access method for this camera.
    >
    > If this is 9.3, accessing it will remove the USB storage driver.
    >
    Sorry, should have said, it is 9.3. The frustrating thing is I upgraded
    from 9.0 where I didn't have these troubles.

    > It should however not hang the communication.
    >
    >>3) How do I get rid of the 1st instance of Konqueror from appearing when
    >>I plug in the camera so that the media:/camera URL does not appear? It
    >>umounts the usb disk when used so I'd rather it was not around as this
    >>is all for my grandmother.
    >
    > In the hardware icon in the lower right of the KDE panel, select
    > that it does not autostart.
    >
    >>When I plug the camera into a computer for the first time, I get a
    >>message box titled "SUSE hardware detection" with message:
    >>
    >>A new camera was detected
    >>
    >>Open with: kfmclient openURL camera:/ ?
    >>
    >>x Do not ask again
    >>
    >> Yes No
    >>
    >>I selected yes on the one system and left the 'Do not ask again' option
    >>selected. Where is this option stored? I'd like it to ask me again so
    >>that I can choose no! The SUSE Administration Guide indicates that
    >>programs are run on an event such as the camera being plugged in, but I
    >>can't see anything in any of the /etc/hotplug.d scripts that run either
    >>kfmclient or konqueror.
    >
    > In the hardware icon in the lower right of the KDE panel (suse hardware
    > plugger).

    Fantastic, got it. Thanks for your helpful reply.

    William 

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