Just FYI... My wife and I had a gift-card that we decided to use on a new digital camera. This time a Canon PowerShot A540, which so far seems quite nice. (I've really liked my growingly-decrepit 2.0 megapixel A60.)
The new camera uses SD instead of CF, and I only have a CF reader, so I decided to try plugging it into my desktop's USB port. I'm running Kubuntu 6.10 with KDE 3.5.6. Voila! A window comes up asking if I want to browse the photos in folders, grab them with Digikam, or neither. "Excellent!", I think. Well, sadly, not so easy. I kept getting "Could not claim the USB device" from Digikam or Konqueror. I then found this recent thread over at the Ubuntu Forums website that I thought I'd share with folks, in case anyone else stumbles upon this issue: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=346840 I first tried making sure my camera's _exact_ Vendor and Product IDs were in my udev rules file for the gPhoto2 library (which KDE's "Digikam" and "Kamera" use). No luck. Then I noticed at the bottom that changing this: BUS!="usb*" to this SUBSYSTEM!="usb_device" in that same file (/etc/udev/rules.d/45-libgphoto2.rules) may be necessary. THAT did it. :) Now to take some nice 4 megapixel baby photos and see if this thing can do better than 320x240 in the video department ;) -- -bill! [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
