Detecting a digital camera SuSE

ccin1492 · 05-10-2005, 12:14 AM

When I plug in my camera thru the USB port, it auto mounts fine at /dev/sdb1 and /media/usb... I can browse it with Konqueror and so forth. My question: Why can't I get digikam or the SuSE control center to auto detect the camera? Is there something special I need to do, or is this a common problem that I might just have to live with?

Thanks.

abisko00 · 05-10-2005, 04:06 AM

Can't you just manually select your camera in digikam? It would probably be the 'USB Mass Storage' driver in case your camera is not listed.

ccin1492 · 05-10-2005, 11:09 AM

Actually, my camera is listed in digikam and I selected it from the list but that didn't work. So I tried adding it manually like your suggesting, but it still won't recognise the camera: I choose USB and the mount point /dev/sdb1. Is this not correct?

abisko00 · 05-10-2005, 11:21 AM

The mountpoint should be the same you are using to access the camera in konqueror (/media/usb...), not /dev/sdb1 (you can't mount a device to itself).

ccin1492 · 05-10-2005, 06:23 PM

Ok, I'll try that. Now will this mount point always be the same (name). Or is this name chosen at random? For example one time it might be /media/usb01 and then the next /media/usb02.

abisko00 · 05-11-2005, 02:23 AM

You may choose your own mountpoint, but then you interfere with the submount system, SUSE uses to mount drives automatically. Submount will create a mountpoint based on a hardware ID. You may add the camera to the hotplug-blacklist, but I am not sure if it will be recognised at all then. I recommend using the mountpoint that is created by submount.

ccin1492 · 05-11-2005, 09:42 AM

So I tried adding the camera manually, but digikam still won't recognise the camera. At this point I'm not sure what else to try. Is anyone else unable to have thier camera autodetected by digikam, or any other photo software, or kde?

abisko00 · 05-11-2005, 09:54 AM

Please post the name of your camera. Maybe someone has made similar experiences with the same type of camera and knows a solution.

ccin1492 · 05-11-2005, 11:23 AM

Sorry! My camera is a Nikon Coolpix 3100. And digikam does have it is listed.

abisko00 · 05-11-2005, 11:33 AM

I just saw that the digicam driver is using PTP mode for data transfer. On my Canon 300D, this mode has to be activated in the camera configuration. Maybe this is simlar for the Nikon.

ccin1492 · 05-11-2005, 04:40 PM

Do you mean configuration of the camera itself? I'll take a look at my camera settings when I get home tonight then... maybe I'll see something.

ccin1492 · 05-11-2005, 11:39 PM

Hey abisko00, you're right on the mark. In my camera's setup menu there's a section for USB, I clicked on that and selected PTP (Mass Storage was selected by default). Now the camera's being auto detected! Ticket is closed!

Many Thanks.

abisko00 · 05-12-2005, 02:40 AM

Does the camera still auto-mount? I would assume that you can have either usb mass storage or PTP control. I still wonder why the USB Mass Storage driver of digikam didn't work. But whatsoever, it works at least this way...

ccin1492 · 05-12-2005, 04:00 PM

No it doesn't auto-mount anymore. So I guess it's one or the other and not both. I'll use the PTP control so digikam can access the pictures on the camera: it's a lot simpler for my wife...and me ;-)