On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 21:26 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 10/29/2013 12:23 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > Actually, that's not a good test. Thunar only supports/shows USB Mass > > Storage devices, which Canon cameras are not (they use some proprietary > > canon protocol on USB mode, or PTP on PTP mode). You need to interface > > with it using gphoto2, which is what Shotwell is actually doing. > > I assume the explanation also applies to the Xfce desktop (?).
Yes. > > > It would be nice if Xfce and Thunar supported Canon cameras. We have > several, and I'm migrating our SOHO desktops to debian-7.2-i386-xfce. Afaik that's not possible on Wheezy. On Jessie+, iirc, gphoto devices should appear in Thunar once they are gio/gvfs-mounted, that has to be done manually or in thunar-volman (and it's broken right now because of > > > > Can you check: > > - if the USB drive is correctly seen by the kernel (shows in dmesg, can > > be mounted manually) > > - if the USB drive is correctly seen by udisks (I think it's someting > > like udisks --dump, and udisks --monitor can help too). > > I tested the Seagate FreeAgent XTreme external hard drive against a few > Debian 7 installations: > > 1. Intel D945GNT motherboard with fairly recent and lightly used > install of Debian 7 amd64 (system used for initial bug report) -- > hotplug works correctly via both USB and Firewire. (Machine does not > have eSATA port.) This doesn't match my earlier findings. I don't know > why. > > 2. Intel D945GNT motherboard with fresh install (yesterday and today) > of Debian 7 i386 -- hotplug works correctly via both USB and Firewire. > > 3. Intel DQ67SWB3 motherboard with older (December 2012, possibly > pre-Stable?) and heavily used install of Debian 7 amd64 -- hotplug works > correctly for USB, but fails for eSATA. > > […] > So, it appears that the kernel is not seeing eSATA hotplug events (?). > The diffs are not really readable, but if the kernel doesn't see the hotplug events, there's not much chance anything userland can do anything, so it looks more like a kernel issue. It might help to try with a more recent kernel (I assume you're using a stock Debian kernel?). > > I am in the process of preparing to wipe and rebuild the machine having > the eSATA problems. I'll report when I have more information. > Ok. -- Yves-Alexis
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