Re: [SOLVED] Problems Mounting Digital Camera
Hi guys,
My cam worked w/ digikam. I didn't try to use gphoto2 yet...but it should work.
Anyway...
Thanks for those who helped me.
Best regards,
Romulo Sousa
On 6/2/05, Andrew Schulman <andrex@alumni.utexas.net> wrote:
> > is it possible? i
> > mean, access my cam w/ gphoto and not mounting it?
>
> Yes, this is how my Canon Powershot S30 works, and many other cameras
> too I believe. I never mount my camera as a file system. Instead I
> just run digikam, which is a front end for libgphoto2, which "sees" my
> camera and knows how to manipulate its contents.
>
> Other cameras do get mounted as file systems, which seems more
> convenient since it allows you to manipulate their contents without the
> intermediary of gphoto2. But if your camera isn't one of those, there's
> nothing you can do about it. Of course there is the newer
> gphoto-fuse-fs option that I mentioned. I've never tried that, and it
> requires the fuse module. But it may work for you.
>
> > maybe some module
> > to be loaded by the kernel should fix it?
>
> FWIW, below are my notes about how I got gphoto2 to work. It seems that
> I needed usb support, hotplug, and Video4Linux.
>
> Good luck,
> Andrew.
>
> 2004-03: read /usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-2/README.Debian. The
> instructions below are somewhat dated.
>
> 2003-09:
> To set up gphoto2 I followed the instructions in the gphoto2 manual
> section 4.3,
> http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html. Also,
> the Video4Linux kernel module is required for USB cameras.
>
> First I set up USB. In the end all that was needed was to include USB
> support (especially "Preliminary USB file system support") in the
> kernel, and install hotplug. usbdevfs is then automatically mounted
> for me at boot time, presumably by hotplug, under /proc/bus/usb.
>
> To set up gphoto2, again I followed the instructions:
>
> mkdir /usr/lib/hotplug/libgphoto2
> /usr/lib/libgphoto2-2/print-usb-usermap > \
> /usr/lib/hotplug/libgphoto2/usb.usermap
> update-usb.usermap
>
> which includes the contents of /usr/lib/hotplug/libgphoto2/usb.usermap
> (camera descriptions) into /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap.
>
> Then I borrowed the sample script
> /usr/share/doc/gphoto2/linux-hotplug/usbcam.group and copied it to
> /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam. All this script does is change the group
> ownership of a newly plugged-in camera to camera, and set the group rw
> permissions.
>
> I also created the "camera" group, which should include all console
> users.
>
> Finally I set
>
> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/camera camera \
> /usr/bin/digikam 100
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
Reply to: