accessing usb digital camera

[Ted Treadwell]

I use digikam and it usually works well.  I don't get
the Imaging Interface icon when I plug in the camera. 
I have the same camera as you, Canon Powershot A95,
and am running Kubuntu 5.10 AMD 64 w/KDE 3.5.

-Ted


--- Stratos Laspas <stratos at laspas.gr> wrote:

> Using Kubuntu 5.10 with KDE 3.5.1 The camera is a
> Canon Powershot A95.
> 
> When the camera is connected (USB), I see an icon on
> the desktop "USB
> Imaging Interface", and also a window pops up
> prompting what to do:
> "Medium type: Camera ---     Open in new window or
> do nothing"
> 
> When I choose to open in new window, Konq opens at
> system:/media/camera
> and inside it I see "Canon Powershote A95 (normal
> mode)". Pressing on
> that goes to system:/media/camera/camera containing
> only one icon with
> the same name and finally pressing on that gives a
> message "an error
> occured while loading
> system:/media/camera/camera/camera -- Unknown
> error Bad parameters"
> 
> I then tried accessing /media/camera through
> Krusader while the first
> "what to do" window was still displayed and I got a
> message "could not
> mount /media/camera,  special device /dev/sdc does
> not exist" (which
> sounds quite informative, but I'm not sure what to
> do with it and how)
> 
> In gphoto.org it is mentioned that this camera can
> be accessed in both
> normal and ptp mode, if that is any help.
> 
> Could someone give me a quick hint?
> 
> Thanks,
> Stratos
> 
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