accessing usb digital camera

[Stratos Laspas]

Ted Treadwell wrote:
> 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

Thanks Ted, I'll try that, but I don't think it'll be any good for me.
The problem is that after the error message, and while the camera is
still connected, there is no entry for the camera on /media or any
device of /dev/sdX type other than my two sata discs (sda, sdb).

On the other hand, when I connect some other usb device such as the
iPod, it open up automatically sdc1 or sdc2, I can't remember, and it
works fine. Maybe this is treated as a usb mass storage and the camera
is not.

I also tried to put the memory card with the photos in the HP photosmart
7350 usb printer's card reader, but no luck, the drives to not seem to
exist. It worked with Mandriva though.

I just ditched windows entirely and I am trying to work my way through
all the little things. Only ones left not working are the printer's card
reader and the camera.

I could RTFM for accessing the camera (and eventually I will), but right
now I was hoping for a "quick fix"....

Stratos

> 
> 
> --- 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 maging 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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