Re: Making hotplugging my camera work
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:04:01AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
> Can someone explain the processes that occur when I hot plug my camera
> in and kde pops up a dialog asking whether I want to download to
> digiKam, or open in a new window.
>
> The reason I am asking is twofold
>
> 1) Its not working with digiKam - digiKam has been told to look
> in /media/sdg1 (the device that udev has created is /dev/sdg1) but this
> is not there - however when you ask it to open a new window
> instead, /media/disk is created. This latter move does allow you to
> browse the pictures.
>
> This is particularly wierd, because the device permissions for /dev/sdg1
> are 660 with owner and group of "root" - yet I am still able to read
> the data as user "alan".
>
> 2) I tried creating a udev rule that changed the device name
> to /dev/camera. In this instance, it appears that the first time the
> device is created, kde does pop up the dialog box, but until I reboot
> the machine never does so again. I suspect this is to do with the hal
> daemon.
I'm not an expert, but this may help:
Cameras handle off-loading pictures in two different ways. The more
fancy cameras have special proprietary protocols for data transfer, and
give the user/owner special control options, but they require specialized
software. Less expensive cameras simply fake a $soft FAT file system and
let you use the file copy functions of your computer to grab the pictures.
Part of digikam is a collection of cloned drivers for the expensive cameras.
It seems to me you (like me) have a less expensive camera which does not
need or use the drivers in digikam. I use 'cp' to copy the images from my
camera into a directory where digikam can find them.
HTH
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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