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I'm running into a problem mounting my Canon digicam on Slackware 10.2. I downloaded and installed digikam with all of the dependencies. The program works fine. When I click on auto-detect camera, it finds the camera. But, when I try to connect to it, it fails. Now, if I try doing using the program as root, it works just fine. It connects to the camera and all. Now, my question is, is there a way that I can find out where Slackware is installing the camera, like /dev/xxx or something else? I have tried, but have not been successful. I have already search around the forums and tried some of those suggestions, but it didn't work. Anyone has any idea? Thanks!
Yes, it is a USB connection. I have tried mounting /dev/sda /dev/sda1, etc...; and all I get is not a valid block device. I just can't figure out where root is mounting it to.
Well, while root has it mounted, you could look at your /etc/mtab file. However, if root can mount it but a user can't, then you need to modify your hotplug script. Take a look at http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html and see if that helps you. Specifically, your usbcam script must properly change the permissions for you.
Well, while root has it mounted, you could look at your /etc/mtab file. However, if root can mount it but a user can't, then you need to modify your hotplug script. Take a look at http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html and see if that helps you. Specifically, your usbcam script must properly change the permissions for you.
Depends what you are trying to do, get to your video or still pics on the memory card
I use fire wire for video MUCH better than usb.
For pics, I use USB,I found this on another forum forgot where.
My Sony Camcorder "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera"
My panasonic "mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera"
That "/mnt/camera" is a directory "camera" in "/mnt" :-)
Notice that the file type for the Panasonic and Sony is different. I took a guess after I got the Sony working and found that I get the same error as you when I plug in the Panasonic, changed the filetype and voila!
regards
peter
Depends what you are trying to do, get to your video or still pics on the memory card
I use fire wire for video MUCH better than usb.
For pics, I use USB,I found this on another forum forgot where.
My Sony Camcorder "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera"
My panasonic "mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera"
That "/mnt/camera" is a directory "camera" in "/mnt" :-)
Notice that the file type for the Panasonic and Sony is different. I took a guess after I got the Sony working and found that I get the same error as you when I plug in the Panasonic, changed the filetype and voila!
regards
peter
I haven't tried the msdos file type. I'm just trying to access the camera to download the pictures.
I then used the usbcam.user script, changed root to steve, and pasted that file in the /etc/hotplug/usb directory after chaining the name to usbcam and overwriting the existing file. After rebooting all worked fine. The directions are pretty good.
Good luck.
I should mention that you need to install libgphoto2 if you have not allready.
I then used the usbcam.user script, changed root to steve, and pasted that file in the /etc/hotplug/usb directory after chaining the name to usbcam and overwriting the existing file. After rebooting all worked fine. The directions are pretty good.
Good luck.
I should mention that you need to install libgphoto2 if you have not allready.
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