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ltmon

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Sunday, March 12th 2006, 6:21am

Getting my camera to work

Hi All,

I have a Canon Powershot A520 digital camera, which works fine in Digikam if I identify it as a "USB PTP Class Camera".

In KDE, however, the desktop icon appears as "Imaging Device" and opening it shows a single directory "Canon Ixus 500". This directory never opens, double-clicking has no effect.

Any ideas how I can get the camera to work correctly in KDE?

I tried using the "Digital Camera" configuration in KControl, but it didn't help. In fact, I'm not sure what it did. Adding a "Canon Powershot A520" camera seemed to work, but "Test" caused nothing to happen and "Configure" caused an error "Configuration Failed: bad parameters".

Thanks,

L.

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Sunday, March 12th 2006, 10:26am

RE: Getting my camera to work

When you hover the mouse over the camera icon, you might see a device name (/dev/sda1 for example). Try to mount your camera manually with that device and see if it succeeds or terminates with an error message.
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Sunday, March 12th 2006, 10:53am

Hi,

The camera doesn't seem to have a device name. See attached screenshot.

It indicates that the device could be mounted in /media, but I don't see any device for it there. The directories present in /media are:

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cdrom  cdrom0  ipod  sdc2  usbdisk


These are all devices (I think) that I have used in in the past.

My dmesg output when plugging in is:

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[4343042.802000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: wakeup
[4343043.079000] usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5


Also, a correction to my original post: The icon for the camera on my desktop is labeled "USB Imaging Interface".

Cheers,

L.
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Sunday, March 12th 2006, 1:47pm

I meant the tooltip for looking up the device name, not the properties dialog. Just hover over the device and the tooltip appears.
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Monday, March 13th 2006, 4:05am

The tooltip shows no more information than the properties dialog. In fact it simply shows the icon name again, but no extra information. I know most USB devices have a device associated, but this one doesn't seem to.

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Monday, March 13th 2006, 2:20pm

It works with digikam because the camera is using PTP which is Picture Transfer Protocol, to get it to work as you want you need to tell the camera in its setting to act as a usb storage device
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