gtkam with USB mass storage camera
I've been trying to use the gtkam camera program with my digital camera (a Toshiba PDR M25). The camera interface simulates a mass storage device, and I can retrieve the images perfectly well using /dev/sdb1 (or /media/sdb1, the mount point). However, I cannot get gtkam to recognize the camera (and gtkam provides some handy facilities such as thumbnails). If I use the "add camera" function, I get "no camera detected", and if I try to specify the camera as "USB PTP Class Camera", the only plausible choice, I get the message "Could not list folders in `/'". (The other Toshiba cameras don't work either.) Any suggestions about how to get gtkam to recognize the camera? Paul Abrahams
On Sun January 4 2004 10:35 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I've been trying to use the gtkam camera program with my digital camera (a Toshiba PDR M25). The camera interface simulates a mass storage device, and I can retrieve the images perfectly well using /dev/sdb1 (or /media/sdb1, the mount point). However, I cannot get gtkam to recognize the camera (and gtkam provides some handy facilities such as thumbnails). If I use the "add camera" function, I get "no camera detected", and if I try to specify the camera as "USB PTP Class Camera", the only plausible choice, I get the message "Could not list folders in `/'". (The other Toshiba cameras don't work either.)
Any suggestions about how to get gtkam to recognize the camera?
Paul Abrahams
USB PTP would not be what you want. You don't mention which version of SUSE you are running but why don't you try digikam, which is a GUI front-end to gphoto2. Just describe the camera as a USB mass storage type and it should work just fine. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 01/05/04 09:56 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Part-time musicians are semiconductors."
You don't mention which version of SUSE you are running but why don't you
On Monday 05 January 2004 9:57 am, Bruce Marshall wrote: try
digikam, which is a GUI front-end to gphoto2.
Just describe the camera as a USB mass storage type and it should work just fine.
It does. Thanks. I found a statement on the gphoto website to the effect that gphoto will never support USB mass storage camera types. Apparently the authors have some objection in principle to those things. Paul Abrahams
On Monday 05 January 2004 17:14 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Monday 05 January 2004 9:57 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
You don't mention which version of SUSE you are running but why don't you
try
digikam, which is a GUI front-end to gphoto2.
Just describe the camera as a USB mass storage type and it should work just fine.
It does. Thanks.
I found a statement on the gphoto website to the effect that gphoto will never support USB mass storage camera types. Apparently the authors have some objection in principle to those things.
Or they simply don't see the point of duplicating capabilities already in the kernel. If you particularly want/need thumbnails then there are plenty of apps available which can do that. Dylan
Paul Abrahams
-- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:14:15PM -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
You don't mention which version of SUSE you are running but why don't you
On Monday 05 January 2004 9:57 am, Bruce Marshall wrote: try
digikam, which is a GUI front-end to gphoto2.
Just describe the camera as a USB mass storage type and it should work just fine.
It does. Thanks.
I found a statement on the gphoto website to the effect that gphoto will never support USB mass storage camera types. Apparently the authors have some objection in principle to those things.
Gphoto is not meant for it, since you can way easier just mount them under Linux. Btw, digikam does support mounted cameras to some degree. Ciao, Marcus
On Monday 05 January 2004 17:49 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Monday 05 January 2004 12:23 pm, Dylan wrote:
If you particularly want/need thumbnails then there are plenty of apps available which can do that.
Any recommendations in particular?
I use pixie-plus as a viewer, as for generating them for use in albums etc. I can't advise since I don't use one but sourceforge is a fine place to start... Dylan
Paul
-- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
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