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)

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:18:04PM +0100, andy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:46:00PM +0100, andy wrote: >> >>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: >> >> ... Andy is having trouble wit

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

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
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 it might he

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 12:51, andy wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 08/08/07 12:25, andy wrote: >> >>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >> [snip] >> # addgroup camera # adduser $USER camera Then you must log out and back in again to ma

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update)

2007-08-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 13:18, andy wrote: [snip] > > I have tried the camera on my wife's Etch machine and first time out, > the camera auto-mounted and I could access the photos!! She runs KDE. So > I logged out of Gnome and back into KDE on my Lenny machine

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update)

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:46:00PM +0100, andy wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: ... Andy is having trouble with his camera... please provide the output of tail -f /var/log/syslog

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:46:00PM +0100, andy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: >> ... Andy is having trouble with his camera... >> >> please provide the output of >> tail -f /var/log/syslog >> >> while you plug in the camera >

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Andy, I remember om my old Amiga I had a similar problem. It had something to do with the camera not complying to usb standards. I first had to format the mem card on my computer before I could access it. From then on I had no more problems. Though this ain't exactly Linux related, you might gi

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 12:25, andy wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] # addgroup camera # adduser $USER camera Then you must log out and back in again to make it "take". - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Hi Ro

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:50:52AM -0700, Raquel wrote: I got a PowerShot A570IS soon after they came out this year. Plugging into the USB port it mounted right up. I boug

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: > I did mention that I was running Lenny. The kernel is 2.6.21 Foolish of me to miss it! Sorry. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 12:25, andy wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> >> # addgroup camera >> >> # adduser $USER camera >> >> Then you must log out and back in again to make it "take". >> >> - -- >> Ron Johnson, Jr. >> Jefferson LA USA >> >> > Hi Ron > >

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: > Kumar Appaiah wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:50:52AM -0700, Raquel wrote: >> >>> I got a PowerShot A570IS soon after they came out this year. Plugging >>> into the USB port it mounted right up. I bought a SanDisk >>> card reader jus

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 12:07, andy wrote: Raquel wrote: [snip] Check permissions ... you're part of the "camera" group? Thanks - have just checked but there doesn't appear to be a "camera" group for me to join. I *do

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:50:52AM -0700, Raquel wrote: I got a PowerShot A570IS soon after they came out this year. Plugging into the USB port it mounted right up. I bought a SanDisk card reader just for ease of use and it works too. The OP hasn't mentioned whet

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:50:52AM -0700, Raquel wrote: > I got a PowerShot A570IS soon after they came out this year. > Plugging into the USB port it mounted right up. I bought a SanDisk > card reader just for ease of use and it works too. The OP hasn't mentioned whether he is using Etch. Could

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 12:07, andy wrote: > Raquel wrote: [snip] >> >> Check permissions ... you're part of the "camera" group? >> >> > Thanks - have just checked but there doesn't appear to be a "camera" > group for me to join. I *do* have permissions to acce

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Raquel wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:39:59 +0100 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all I have just bought a Canon Powershot A640 camera and went to download the photos off of the memory card using the USB cable. However, although a dialog box pops up telling me that a camera ha

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:39:59 +0100 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I have just bought a Canon Powershot A640 camera and went to > download the photos off of the memory card using the USB cable. > However, although a dialog box pops up telling me that a camer

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:39:59 +0100 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I have just bought a Canon Powershot A640 camera and went to > download the photos off of the memory card using the USB cable. > However, although a dialog box pops up telling me that a camer

Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Hi all I have just bought a Canon Powershot A640 camera and went to download the photos off of the memory card using the USB cable. However, although a dialog box pops up telling me that a camera has been detected and would I like to import/ignore the photos, no device is auto-mounted nor