Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)
andy wrote:
>
> If it is no trouble for you to verify this, then that would be a useful
> comparison to know. As noted earlier, I have now installed digikam and
> will use that from now on to download the images from the camera. I am
> just used to having the Sony auto-mounted and clicking through the
> directories to the images. Force of habit, but I am still puzzled by the
> inconsistency between why the Sony auto-mounts and the Canon doesn't and
> why my wife's Etch machine auto recognises (and auto-mounts) the camera
> and Lenny doesn't. Go figure!!
Okay, just tried it again (it a Canon A520). The syslog is given at the
end of this message. When I switched on the camera in playback mode, I
got a window (in KDE) asking if I want to open the detected device in a
new window, use digikam to detect and download photos or to do nothing.
I chose the second option.
Digikam started and at first attempt it failed to detect the camera
correctly and asked in a dialog window if I want to try detection again.
I tried that again and this time it worked and listed all the photos in
a window. So appears it worked, after a little hiccup.
This is on Etch using
$> dpkg -l *digikam* *photo* | grep ^i
ii digikam 2:0.9.2-4 digital photo management application for KDE
ii gphoto2 2.3.1-2 The gphoto2 digital camera
command-line clie
ii libgphoto2-2 2.3.1-8 gphoto2 digital camera library
ii libgphoto2-2-dev 2.3.1-8 gphoto2 digital camera library (development
ii libgphoto2-port0 2.3.1-8 gphoto2 digital camera port library
$> uname -r
2.6.21-2-686
>
> I don't have a card reader, but it sounds like that may not be such a
> bad thing to get, except that it is probably more hassle to eject the SD
> card and reload it into a reader and run the risk of damaging it from
> frequent handling.
I have found the card reader to be must faster than using the camera.
But using digikam directly with the camera has some added advantages,
for example batch renaming images during downloading (I used it to
rename image files based on the subject of pics).
->HS
Aug 8 16:00:01 localhost kernel: EXT3 FS on hdb3, internal journal
Aug 8 16:01:30 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3
Aug 8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603290.075014] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun2').
Aug 8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603290.077570] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_if0_scsi_host').
Aug 8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603290.086872] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun3').
Aug 8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603290.095099] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SanDisk_ImageMate_6_in_1_105025001353_0').
Aug 8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603290.100771] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0').
Aug 8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603290.109374] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SanDisk_ImageMate_6_in_1_105025001353').
Aug 8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603290.116725] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SanDisk_ImageMate_6_in_1_105025001353_2').
Aug 8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603290.123471] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun1').
Aug 8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603290.131797] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SanDisk_ImageMate_6_in_1_105025001353_1').
Aug 8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603290.144731] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_usbraw').
Aug 8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603290.149232] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_if0').
Aug 8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603290.156930] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353').
Aug 8 16:02:25 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device
using uhci_hcd and address 4
Aug 8 16:02:25 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from
1 choice
Aug 8 16:02:26 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603346.103743] nm_hal_device_added (): New device added (hal
udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4a9_30c1_noserial').
Aug 8 16:02:26 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603346.126098] nm_hal_device_added (): New device added (hal
udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4a9_30c1_noserial_if0').
Aug 8 16:02:26 localhost NetworkManager: <debug
info>^I[1186603346.133255] nm_hal_device_added (): New device added (hal
udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4a9_30c1_noserial_usbraw').
Aug 8 16:07:53 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 4
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