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I've done a search, read everything I can and followed the suggestions, but still can't get the camera working under 10.0 Eval, installed from downloaded CDs. Everything else works fine.
I have a Sony DSC-U10 which was previously working fine via USB under 9.1
The USB Monitor in KMenu shows the camera connected.
SuSEPlugger is running (though it does not appear in KMenu as I saw in one thread).
My /etc/fstab file is like this, which I believe provides the necessary scsi device definition to route the camera through.
check "/dev/disks/by-id" and see if your device is listed there. If it is, look where the symlink points to, maybe it's named sda2 of sdb1 or whatever.
I created /media/camera as a place to mount the scsi representation of the camera, but /media/camera is empty.
The camera is plugged in as I write, and Kmenu | System | Monitor | USB Devices shows a Sony DSC camera with a Product ID of (DSC-S30/S70/S75/F505V/F505/FD92 Cybershot/Mavica Digital Camera).
KMenu | System | Monitor | SCSI shows no scsi devices.
Looks to me like the system is seeing the camera, but not attaching it to a scsi device and therefore not mounting it.
If I read other threads correctly, I guess SuSEPlugger is supposed to be doing this. It is running according to the KDE System Guard ProcessTable.
Just thinking out loud, is there a SuSEPlugger config setup that tells it what to do or not do on an automatic basis ?
SuSE should be auto mounting your camera. It takes longer than for a memory stick. eventually a konqueror window should pop up with a file view of the camera storage. You can now treat it like any other file device. You can also use digikam to open the camera storage and place pictures in an album. I say this based on experience with a Canon A75 but I'd be surprised if its different for Sony. I didn't have to configure anything for this to work.
Mounting has changed in SuSE 10.0 for the better. You no longer need to interact with SuSEplugger for it to work so the desktop icon isn't there.
Understand and agree, but it isn't happening. The camera's been plugged in for the last 3 days
I understand about the plugger icon. It was just that in another thread someone was insisting that it should be in the KMenu, and it ain't - at least on mine.
I guess I'm stuck, but thanks to everyone for your help.
gphoto2 --auto-detect shows no cameras, even though USB Monitor sees it OK, which I presume means Linux sees it OK but is not mounting it for some reason.
For the sake of completeness there are two things I need to do on my Canon A75 to make things work. The Canon has a switch that goes between picture and menu mode -- select menu mode. 2nd I have to turn the camera on. The Sony may not have a parallel for the mode switch but you still probably need to turn it on.
in order for gphoto2 and gtkam to work you do need hotplug started too...
i should have mentioned that in my first reply...
P.S. Hotplug does slow down boot time by anywhere from 30 seconds up to a minute longer, or if you start hotplug after boot it is slow to launch even on fast computers...
hald is running - starts automatically. My file structure appears to be similar to yours but not quite the same, as there are no camera specific files.
Looks like I have some reading and digging to do, which will take me a while due to time constraints, but I'll report back when I can.
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