On Wed, 3/2/16, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp <dr.klepp@???> wrote:

Subject: Re: [DNG] Digital camera management borked
To: dng@???
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 6:19 PM

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> > Subject: [DNG] Digital camera management borked
> > Local Time: March 2, 2016 8:50 pm
> > UTC Time: March 2, 2016 8:50 PM
> > From: golinux@???
> > To: dng@???
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> > I am having trouble finding a way to browse thumbnails of the photos on my old canon camera. gtkam couldn't access the camera. I installed my old favorite f-spot from wheezy (apparently not available in jessie), but it couldn't even see the camera. The only way I have been able to access the camera is through the thunar file manager at this address (which is in need of some translation):
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> > gphoto2://[usb:003,036]/DCIM/
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> > But no image browser can open the jpgs in the folders at that address. Gimp can load only one at a time. It's been frustrating. Thankfully images can be c/p from there.
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> > My guess is that lack of support is due to the fact that fewer people are using stand-alone cameras. Any suggestions how to get a browse functionality back on Devuan?
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> > golinux
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> And maybe the camera has an option in the USB settings for "mass storage".
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> Nik
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> Good one! I never thought of that. I don't use the camera often and mostly it is still a mystery to me. If I can find the manuals, I'll look into that. But then it has worked just fine with different apps over the years . . .

As did mine. And then a genius of an udev developer took care of it and made sure that the cameras ID_TYPE changed from "disk" to "generic", so no user but root could use the camera. Now it works again, but ...


Nik

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Jude . . . how is vdev going to handle usb mounting of cameras?

golinux