Is is easy to get a USB Camera to automount in Fedora 8, if so how do you do it?
I have an Olympus C-460 camera and I'm getting fed up with having to look in /var/log/messages to see what the device name is and then manually issuing the mount command.
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:53 +0100, Chris G wrote:
Is is easy to get a USB Camera to automount in Fedora 8, if so how do you do it?
I have an Olympus C-460 camera and I'm getting fed up with having to look in /var/log/messages to see what the device name is and then manually issuing the mount command.
What are you currently using? I've a Polaroid and Canon digital camera, and both show up automatically when plugged in, and have done so since about Fedora 5.
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 08:58:35PM +0930, Tim wrote:
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:53 +0100, Chris G wrote:
Is is easy to get a USB Camera to automount in Fedora 8, if so how do you do it?
I have an Olympus C-460 camera and I'm getting fed up with having to look in /var/log/messages to see what the device name is and then manually issuing the mount command.
What are you currently using? I've a Polaroid and Canon digital camera, and both show up automatically when plugged in, and have done so since about Fedora 5.
Er, as I said, Fedora 8. My Fuji S8000FD shows up automatically but that's not a USB mass storage connection. It's the USB storage that's not auto-mounting.
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:57 +0100, Chris G wrote:
Er, as I said, Fedora 8.
I didn't know if the question was because you were still using an older release, and were wondering whether updating to 8 would improve things for you.
My Fuji S8000FD shows up automatically but that's not a USB mass storage connection. It's the USB storage that's not auto-mounting.
Have you given the (psuedo) disc a volume name?
To be honest, I found things painfully slow if I plugged my camera into the USB port. I bought a card reader, and yank the card out of the camera to use the pictures. For me, that was much easier, I don't have the camera batteries running down, and it's much faster.
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:49:36PM +0930, Tim wrote:
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:57 +0100, Chris G wrote:
Er, as I said, Fedora 8.
I didn't know if the question was because you were still using an older release, and were wondering whether updating to 8 would improve things for you.
My Fuji S8000FD shows up automatically but that's not a USB mass storage connection. It's the USB storage that's not auto-mounting.
Have you given the (psuedo) disc a volume name?
To be honest, I found things painfully slow if I plugged my camera into the USB port. I bought a card reader, and yank the card out of the camera to use the pictures. For me, that was much easier, I don't have the camera batteries running down, and it's much faster.
How does that help (as regards mounting, not speed). I have a card reader, I have to mount that manually too, so it's exactly the same as reading from the camera.
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 14:30 +0100, Chris G wrote:
I have a card reader, I have to mount that manually too, so it's exactly the same as reading from the camera.
That works automatically here, too. So the issue would seem to be custom to your system.
Are you using Gnome, KDE, or something else. Gnome has its own auto-mounter, I think KDE still does, I don't know about others.
Have you set preferences for removable media? (Automatically mount, automatically browse, etc.) Do you know where to set them?
Those are the first obvious things that I can think to ask about.
Chris G wrote:
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:49:36PM +0930, Tim wrote:
Have you given the (psuedo) disc a volume name?
To be honest, I found things painfully slow if I plugged my camera into the USB port. I bought a card reader, and yank the card out of the camera to use the pictures. For me, that was much easier, I don't have the camera batteries running down, and it's much faster.
How does that help (as regards mounting, not speed). I have a card reader, I have to mount that manually too, so it's exactly the same as reading from the camera.
HAL is sometime funky about mounting unlabeled media. One other thing that can help is to use gnome-mount to mount the media. I think it saves some information about the media to help with mounting it the next time.
Mikkel
Chris G wrote:
Is is easy to get a USB Camera to automount in Fedora 8, if so how do you do it?
I have an Olympus C-460 camera and I'm getting fed up with having to look in /var/log/messages to see what the device name is and then manually issuing the mount command.
If you are running Gnome, check System --> Preferences --> Hardware --> Removable Drives and Media - there are tabs for different types of media, and how to handle them. For removable media, it also helps to have a label - HAL will then mount it at /media/<name> instead of using a generic name. (It sometimes fails to do an auto-mount on unlabeled media.)
Mikkel
things are worse in F9/KDE
Look in the file manager
There was a time when flash memory/camera cards opened automatically
and placed an icon on the screen.
I have a beautiful screenshot of these icons!
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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:52:05 -0500 From: mikkel@infinity-ltd.com To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Automounting Camera-USB mass storage
Chris G wrote:
Is is easy to get a USB Camera to automount in Fedora 8, if so how do you do it?
I have an Olympus C-460 camera and I'm getting fed up with having to look in /var/log/messages to see what the device name is and then manually issuing the mount command.
If you are running Gnome, check System --> Preferences --> Hardware --> Removable Drives and Media - there are tabs for different types of media, and how to handle them. For removable media, it also helps to have a label - HAL will then mount it at /media/ instead of using a generic name. (It sometimes fails to do an auto-mount on unlabeled media.)
Mikkel
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On Tuesday 02 September 2008 16:57:30 landon kelsey wrote:
things are worse in F9/KDE
Look in the file manager
There was a time when flash memory/camera cards opened automatically
and placed an icon on the screen.
I have a beautiful screenshot of these icons!
In KDE4 when you plug in any usb storage device you get a popup asking if you want to open it in dolphin. If you didn't accept that at the time you should still be able to see the device and open it in the same way, later.
You don't get a desktop icon, but there is no problem whatsoever about accessing the device in either dolphin or konqueror once you have accepted that option.
Anne
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:53:27 +0100, Chris G wrote:
Is is easy to get a USB Camera to automount in Fedora 8, if so how do you do it?
I have an Olympus C-460 camera and I'm getting fed up with having to look in /var/log/messages to see what the device name is and then manually issuing the mount command.
-- Chris Green
Check that you have gthumb installed. The actual gui that should pop up (cross your fingers) when you connect the camera is gthumb-import (or gthumb-importer in F9). It pops up provided that you have hal and udev up and running and configured properly. And provided the camera is supported.
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