Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:15:34 -0700 From: Jason Taylor <jason@infinitebubble.com> To: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> Cc: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> Subject: Re: mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!! Message-ID: <40AA36A6.2060004@infinitebubble.com> In-Reply-To: <1084879863.10631.61.camel@chaucer> References: <200405172050.45546.ben@spooty.net> <40A947B6.3050102@infinitebubble.com> <1084849352.10631.54.camel@chaucer> <200405180909.41418.ben@spooty.net> <1084879863.10631.61.camel@chaucer>
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Mike Jeays wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 04:09, 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 > > > My trivial shell-script called "getphotos" does what I need, with the > appropriate entry in /etc/fstab, of course. If you called it from a > desktop icon, it should meet the "wife and even quite young kids" > standard - with absolutely no disrespect intended to your wife and/or > kids! And I am quite sure several people will point out how to simplify > the script. > > #!/bin/sh > mount /flash > find /flash/dcim -name "*.jpg" >/tmp/photos.txt > x1=`cat /tmp/photos.txt` > for f in $x1 > do > cp $x1 ~/pics/Raw/ > done > cd ~/pics/Raw > chown mike * > chmod -x * > umount /flash gtkam is a GUI front-end for gphoto. I added an entry to /etc/usb.conf to launch gtkam when the camera is connected. Honestly, I've only tried it once since setting it all up, but it worked wonderfully that one time.home | help
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