On Thursday 30 December 2004 17:30, Shantanoo wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:30:04 +0530, Nishita Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just bought a sony dsc-p73. To view the pictures, I followed
> > USB-Digital-Camera-HOWTO. But when i come to the part of mounting, I
> > get the following error
>
> AFAIK, Sony uses some proprietary format. It needs its own drivers.
Not at all....I have a Sony DSC-P150 and it works seamlessly with most desktop
distros. Sony uses USB Mass Storage and USB-PTP as the communication
standards. These are widely supported under Linux, though I am not sure of
the level of support with the kernel shipped with RH-8.0. However from the
OP's output of lsusb
"cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!"
I would assume that the scsi_mod driver isnt loaded. Please do an lsmod to see
if that happens to be in place. Also, check if your hotplug system is enabled
and configured properly in /etc/hotplug. As soon as you attach your digital
camera, set your USB access mode to USB Mode Normal from your camera
settings. In an ideal situation, you should get similar output from dmesg
usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using address 3
usb 3-1: Product: Sony DSC
usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Sony
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Sony Model: Sony DSC Rev: 5.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 63424 512-byte hdwr sectors (32 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
Now if you note the line "sda: sda1", it indicates that the device identity
assigned to your flash card is /dev/sda1.
If nothing works, try switching your camera to USB PTP Mode. dmesg should give
you the following output
usb 3-1: new high speed USB device using address 4
usb 3-1: Product: Sony PTP
usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Sony
Now you can use gphoto2 to access your digital camera. Better still, use a
frontend like digikam or gtkam. Be warned though; USB PTP drains your
batteries very fast and diminishes battery half life. So you would want to be
able to use Mass Storage, especially if you are on the move and would want to
use a notebook digicam combo...
> Regards,
> Shantanoo
HTH
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