Camera import - Olympus C-460 - should be easier than this

[Chris Green]

Digikam recognises and imports pictures without any hassle at all from
my new[ish] Fuji S8000FD but getting pictures from my older Olympus
C-460 is a bit more hassle and I'm wondering if I'm missing something.

To get pictures from the C-460 I have to manually mount the USB mass
storage device that appears when the camera is plugged in. As I have
to inspect /var/log/messages to find the device name and I have to do
this as root this is hardly 'user friendly'.  (This is on Fedora 8 by
the way).

Is there a way to automate the C-460 connection a bit?  I appreciate
this may be more of a Fedora/USB/automount question than a digikam
one.

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[Christoph Bergemann-2]

Hi,

> Digikam recognises and imports pictures without any hassle at all from
> my new[ish] Fuji S8000FD but getting pictures from my older Olympus
> C-460 is a bit more hassle and I'm wondering if I'm missing something.
in fact digikam uses libgphoto2 to connect to the camera and does not have its
own library.


> To get pictures from the C-460 I have to manually mount the USB mass
> storage device that appears when the camera is plugged in. As I have
> to inspect /var/log/messages to find the device name and I have to do
> this as root this is hardly 'user friendly'.  (This is on Fedora 8 by
> the way).
Automounting is usually done via HAL and DBUS but it is strange that your
system doesn't do this. Even in Gentoo this worked rather out of the box.

Regards.
Christoph

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[Chris Green]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:25:03AM +0200, Christoph Bergemann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Digikam recognises and imports pictures without any hassle at all from
> > my new[ish] Fuji S8000FD but getting pictures from my older Olympus
> > C-460 is a bit more hassle and I'm wondering if I'm missing something.
> in fact digikam uses libgphoto2 to connect to the camera and does not have its
> own library.
>
OK.
>
> > To get pictures from the C-460 I have to manually mount the USB mass
> > storage device that appears when the camera is plugged in. As I have
> > to inspect /var/log/messages to find the device name and I have to do
> > this as root this is hardly 'user friendly'.  (This is on Fedora 8 by
> > the way).
> Automounting is usually done via HAL and DBUS but it is strange that your
> system doesn't do this. Even in Gentoo this worked rather out of the box.
>
OK, thanks, I've posted a question on the Fedora list about this.

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