Hi guys, My cam worked w/ digikam. I didn't try to use gphoto2 yet...but it should work. Anyway... Thanks for those who helped me.
Best regards, Romulo Sousa On 6/2/05, Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is it possible? i > > mean, access my cam w/ gphoto and not mounting it? > > Yes, this is how my Canon Powershot S30 works, and many other cameras > too I believe. I never mount my camera as a file system. Instead I > just run digikam, which is a front end for libgphoto2, which "sees" my > camera and knows how to manipulate its contents. > > Other cameras do get mounted as file systems, which seems more > convenient since it allows you to manipulate their contents without the > intermediary of gphoto2. But if your camera isn't one of those, there's > nothing you can do about it. Of course there is the newer > gphoto-fuse-fs option that I mentioned. I've never tried that, and it > requires the fuse module. But it may work for you. > > > maybe some module > > to be loaded by the kernel should fix it? > > FWIW, below are my notes about how I got gphoto2 to work. It seems that > I needed usb support, hotplug, and Video4Linux. > > Good luck, > Andrew. > > 2004-03: read /usr/share/doc/libgphoto2-2/README.Debian. The > instructions below are somewhat dated. > > 2003-09: > To set up gphoto2 I followed the instructions in the gphoto2 manual > section 4.3, > http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html. Also, > the Video4Linux kernel module is required for USB cameras. > > First I set up USB. In the end all that was needed was to include USB > support (especially "Preliminary USB file system support") in the > kernel, and install hotplug. usbdevfs is then automatically mounted > for me at boot time, presumably by hotplug, under /proc/bus/usb. > > To set up gphoto2, again I followed the instructions: > > mkdir /usr/lib/hotplug/libgphoto2 > /usr/lib/libgphoto2-2/print-usb-usermap > \ > /usr/lib/hotplug/libgphoto2/usb.usermap > update-usb.usermap > > which includes the contents of /usr/lib/hotplug/libgphoto2/usb.usermap > (camera descriptions) into /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap. > > Then I borrowed the sample script > /usr/share/doc/gphoto2/linux-hotplug/usbcam.group and copied it to > /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam. All this script does is change the group > ownership of a newly plugged-in camera to camera, and set the group rw > permissions. > > I also created the "camera" group, which should include all console > users. > > Finally I set > > update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/camera camera \ > /usr/bin/digikam 100 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
