udev + USB camera = ?
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.)
Thanks,
Christian
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Christian Convey
Computer Scientist,
Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Newport, RI
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