From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 18 04:51:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0256116A902 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 04:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [66.11.169.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B273C43E2B for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 04:26:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from gldis.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i4IBTacj097585; Tue, 18 May 2004 07:29:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Message-ID: <40A9F39E.2050302@gldis.ca> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 07:29:34 -0400 From: Jeremy Faulkner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031207 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Paley References: <200405172050.45546.ben@spooty.net> <40A947B6.3050102@infinitebubble.com> <1084849352.10631.54.camel@chaucer> <200405180909.41418.ben@spooty.net> In-Reply-To: <200405180909.41418.ben@spooty.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 'clamd / ClamAV version 0.65', clamav-milter version '0.60p' cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:51:55 -0000 Ben Paley wrote: > On Tuesday 18 May 2004 04:02, Mike Jeays wrote: > >>On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:16, Jason Taylor wrote: >> >>>I have a similar situation with a Cannon Powershot A40. I can't mount >>>it, but gphoto is able to access it. I had to modify a config file or >>>two in order for the ugen devices to be created writable by anyone other >>>than root. Sorry, I don't have access to that box at the moment or I'd >>>offer something a bit more concrete. > > > gphoto2 turns out to work fine, thanks very much! I wonder why Digikam doesn't > work, then? > > >>I have a Canon Powershot A70, and the same problem. I bought a SanDisk >>card reader, and it works perfectly with a Compact Flash card that has >>been used in the A70. It can be mounted as >>mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt > > > This may turn out to be the easiest thing in the long run: certainly my wife > and kids aren't going to want to learn a CLI for getting at their snaps. I > guess it's either a) buy a cardreader, b) get Digikam to work or c) something > else I don't know about yet. > > Thanks for both your help, > Ben There are GUI's for gphoto2 in the ports tree. I use gtkam. /usr/ports/graphics/gtkam -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca