On Thursday 10 August 2006 04:39 am, Paul wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> >Paul, Your camera should have a 'Play' button or sliding switch on it.
> >It will most likely use the international symbol for 'Play' - often a
> >triangular arrow pointing to the right.
>
> I did have the camera in play-mode everytime I tried this exercise.
>
> Something that I find a bit worrying, but that could be my inexperience
> with the internals of USB and the like, is that the USB-subsystem
> constantly assigns a new address to the port where I hook up the camera:
>
> Dmesg shows:
> usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 14
> usb 5-4: device descriptor read/all, error -71
> usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 15
> usb 5-4: USB disconnect, address 15
> usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 16
> usb 5-4: device descriptor read/all, error -71
> usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 17
> usb 5-4: USB disconnect, address 17
> usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 18
>
> The only difference of the last attempts is that it does not show the
> device descriptor read/all error.
>
> Perhaps it is normal that a new address is assigned though.
>
> An auto-detect in Digikam ended in an error-window:
>
> "Failed to auto-detect camera.
> Please check if your camera is turned on and retry
> or try setting it manually."
>
> Well, it is turned on, connected and in play-mode.
> I tried first switching on the camera and then loading digikam, and also
> load digikam first and then switch on the camera. Same effect. So this
> is... another challenge.
you should have your camera set for USB mass storage instead of PTP
hth
>
> Paul
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