On Tuesday 30 November 2004 09:24, Martin Hardie wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have just migrated from RH9 to Mandrake 10. Now at least I can
> install digikam!! I am having trouble setting up my camera, a
> SonyP73.
>
> I have selected it as a mass storage usb as it is not listed as a
> supported camera
> I have made a /mnt/camera
> but I dont think the fstab setting I found in the digikam
> handbooks is the right one as I dont have a sda1 on my system
>
>
> these are the instructions i had but althoug the camera says it
> is connected i cant see anything:
>
> Make a directory where you can mount the camera:
> mkdir /mnt/camera; chmod 666 /mnt/camera
> Try mounting the camera now:
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera
> If no errors show up, then you have performed all the steps
> correctly. To verify everything is right, point you file manager
> to /mnt/camera and you should be able to see the folder/pictures
> on the camera
> Add an entry to /etc/fstab for the mount point:
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
>
>
> If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate them
Martin, this resembles my problems. After installing 10.1 I had
endless troubles getting my photos into the PC. My camera is an
Olympus C740 UZ with a xD card. Initially, connecting the camera
in exactly the same way as in all earlier Mandrake versions, the
CPU ran amok, the desktop became cluttered with strange icons and
so on and so forth....
Now, I finally can get to the photos thusly :
I turn the camera on in "auto-shoot" mode, and when ready to take
the first photo, I plug the USB cable into the camera. (If I use
the cameras "upload" mode, everything goes crazy). This pops up the
usual "hard drive" icon on the desktop so I can copy the photos
over.
Strange thing (at least to me) is the changing /etc/fstab :
when the camera is disconnected, there is no entry in fstab, but
after connecting fstab has an entry like this (all on one line, of
course) :
/dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto
umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,exec,users
0 0
So maybe there is some ghost with root priviliges in my box ?
HTH
Kaj Haulrich.
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