Re: udev + USB camera = ?
On Monday 22 November 2004 10:35 am, Christian Convey wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm running Sarge / 2.6.8 kernel with udev installed. I've got a
> Kodak DX-series camera that connects via USB and whose name appears
> on digikam's list of supported cameras.
>
> Back when I was running Fedora Core 2/3, programs had no problem
> finding me camera. Under Sarge, however, no luck. Digikam can't find
> it, and I don't notice any entry created in the /dev directory when I
> activate the camera.
>
> An acceptable solution is for it to map to /dev/sda1 when I plug it
> in, because then I could access its photos via the file system. But I
> didn't even see any device under /dev get created for it. My real
> ideal however is that digikam can find it directly, which (I *think*)
> lets digikam<-->camera talk with a richer protocol than just
> filesystem export.
>
> Is this supposed to be something that I have to wrestle to make work
> right, or is this something that in Sarge/2.6.8/udev is supposed to
> Just Work?
>
> (FWIW, I've had no problem with my USB flashdrive keychain creating a
> /dev node when I hotplug it.)
I don't use udev but I had to follow the instructions from the gphoto
site to get digikam to recognize my camera. AFAIK none of the Debian
packages, hotplug, udev...? set this up automagically.
http://gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html
--
Greg C. Madden
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