On Tuesday 30 November 2004 06:48 am, Christian Convey wrote: > >>Another thing maybe you can clarify for me: > >>Suppose that my camera supports a USB mass storage interface as > >> well as a camera (PTP?) interface. Is it the case that only one > >> driver at a time, either mass-storage or ptp, is allowed to bind > >> to the camera (i.e., /proc/bus/usb/001/005) ? > > > > Probably true, but seems that the PTP support is not present on the > > kernel. Accordingly to this documentation > > (http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html), your camera > > is supported via > > gphoto2/ptp, so maybe this excludes usb-storage... =) > > > >>Is it also the case that the usb-mass-storage driver is part of the > >>kernel, whereas the ptp driver might actually be built directly > >> into an application such as gphoto2? > > > > Yes. Seems that you need to install "gtkam" or "gphoto2". > > > > Andrea > > I do have gphoto2 installed. It has a rule in /etc/hotplug/usb/ so > that when the camera is plugged in, its entry in /proc/bus/usb... is > altered: the owner is made to be root:camera, and its permissions are > set to 660. > > But it seems to me that such a script doesn't actually bind a driver > to the device. That should leave open the possibility that > usb-mass-storage can pick up the camera. > > I could understand if I'm getting only a mass storage device > (/dev/sda1) or gphoto2 works with the camera, but in reality neither > is happening. Gphoto2 tells me it can't find a camera. > > Thanks for the link to > http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html. I'll check that > out, and maybe harass the gphoto2 maillist ;) >
Try this also. 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]