Re: [RESOLVED] Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 11:50, andy wrote: [snip] > > Nope, unfortunately usbmount doesn't help. > > Cheers for the suggestion though, it was worth a try When the Import screen pops up, press . Then open an xterm and use the command-line app gphoto2 to try to

Re: [RESOLVED] Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-09 Thread H.S.
andy wrote: > Thanks for your ideas. I suspect that you are probably right in your > assessment of the protocols the different devices use: the Sony > registers as a storage device while the Canon is registered as a camera. > While this doesn't answer the issue of why on my partner's Etch machine

Re: [RESOLVED] Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-09 Thread andy
Jeff D wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, andy wrote: Stefan Monnier wrote: I don't have a card reader, but it sounds like that may not be such a bad thing to get, except that it is probably more hassle to eject the SD card and reload it into a reader and run the risk of damaging it from frequent ha

Re: [RESOLVED] Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, andy wrote: Stefan Monnier wrote: I don't have a card reader, but it sounds like that may not be such a bad thing to get, except that it is probably more hassle to eject the SD card and reload it into a reader and run the risk of damaging it from frequent handling. Contra

[RESOLVED] Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-09 Thread andy
Stefan Monnier wrote: I don't have a card reader, but it sounds like that may not be such a bad thing to get, except that it is probably more hassle to eject the SD card and reload it into a reader and run the risk of damaging it from frequent handling. Contrary to HS I haven't found the c

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I don't have a card reader, but it sounds like that may not be such a bad > thing to get, except that it is probably more hassle to eject the SD card > and reload it into a reader and run the risk of damaging it from > frequent handling. Contrary to HS I haven't found the card reader to be notic

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-08 Thread H.S.
andy wrote: > > If it is no trouble for you to verify this, then that would be a useful > comparison to know. As noted earlier, I have now installed digikam and > will use that from now on to download the images from the camera. I am > just used to having the Sony auto-mounted and clicking throug

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-08 Thread andy
H.S. wrote: andy wrote: OK have run digikam at the command line and manually added the camera to it and now I can view the images. So that at least is progress. It still does not answer the more basic question of why the camera is not being auto-mounted as it is on the Etch machine. Any ide

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-08 Thread H.S.
andy wrote: > andy wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 08/08/07 12:51, andy wrote: >>> Hi again Yes, apparently gphoto2 *does* recognise the camera (and this is confirmed by Canon as well). However, with the Sony, I nev

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-08 Thread andy
andy wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 12:51, andy wrote: Hi again Yes, apparently gphoto2 *does* recognise the camera (and this is confirmed by Canon as well). However, with the Sony, I never used gphoto2 and only installed it thinking that