On Monday 22 November 2004 10:35 am, Christian Convey wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm running Sarge / 2.6.8 kernel with udev installed. I've got a > Kodak DX-series camera that connects via USB and whose name appears > on digikam's list of supported cameras. > > Back when I was running Fedora Core 2/3, programs had no problem > finding me camera. Under Sarge, however, no luck. Digikam can't find > it, and I don't notice any entry created in the /dev directory when I > activate the camera. > > An acceptable solution is for it to map to /dev/sda1 when I plug it > in, because then I could access its photos via the file system. But I > didn't even see any device under /dev get created for it. My real > ideal however is that digikam can find it directly, which (I *think*) > lets digikam<-->camera talk with a richer protocol than just > filesystem export. > > Is this supposed to be something that I have to wrestle to make work > right, or is this something that in Sarge/2.6.8/udev is supposed to > Just Work? > > (FWIW, I've had no problem with my USB flashdrive keychain creating a > /dev node when I hotplug it.)
I don't use udev but I had to follow the instructions from the gphoto site to get digikam to recognize my camera. AFAIK none of the Debian packages, hotplug, udev...? set this up automagically. http://gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html -- Greg C. Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
