On Saturday 02 August 2003 03:51 am, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 03:14, Ken Thompson wrote:
> > On Friday 01 August 2003 03:39 pm, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 22:05, Ken Thompson wrote:
> > > > GTKam can't find my HP 320 USB camera, I can mount it in camera2 and
> > > > get my pix downloaded.
> > >
> > > This is not a bug. gtkam is a frontend to gphoto2, which deals with
> > > cameras that don't work as generic USB storage devices. It's not
> > > intended to deal with cameras that are just USB storage; the correct
> > > method for these cameras is exactly as you describe, mount them and
> > > access them as you would any other filesystem. You will notice your
> > > camera does not appear on the gphoto supported cameras list, here:
> > >
> > > http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php
> >
> > OK, good.. Thanks....
> > The HP Photosmart 320 is shown in the list on my machine, though.
>
> http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html
>
> That page is illuminating...seems to suggest the 320 should work with
> gphoto2 in "PTP mode". If you can select the connection method on the
> camera somehow maybe you weren't doing it right, otherwise perhaps this
> is a bug. Oh, did you try running gtkam in root mode? It won't detect my
> camera if run as a normal user, guess there's a permissions problem
> somewhere...
No, I didn't try in root mode.. The camera is USB and the dialog boxes in
GTKam show USB as the input means and the HP320 as the camera but it won't
detect or access the cam.. I'll try as roo later and see if it can detect it
there.
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Ken Thompson -- WA7SYR
Payette, Idaho
