FC5test1 devel freeze, November 14th

[John Ellson]

Jon Nettleton wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 21:47 -0500, John Ellson wrote:
>   
>> Jon Nettleton wrote:
>>     
>>>>>> The most obvious of these (IMHO) is devices not appearing on desktop or
>>>>>> appearing to be mounted from Computer (et al) when they are indeed
>>>>>> mounted.
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>>>>> This problem is fixed in Hal cvs.  We are working on a timetable for a
>>>>> 0.5.5 release, that will include these changes.
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Will this also fix the problems with USB cameras  (all 457 different 
>>>> types of USB camera, afaict) ?  
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> These fixes are all limited to removable storage.  I was unaware that
>>> there were problems with USB cameras.  Do you have a bugzilla I can
>>> reference?
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Yes:  #170690, #168933, #150985, #165914
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>>
>> John
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>>     
>
> If the camera is seen as a removable usb storage device, which it sounds
> like these are, then yes it will.  The quick way to tell if it will fix
> your problem is look in the /media directory.  If you camera is being
> properly mounted in there and the only problem is it is not showing up
> on the nautilus desktop or in drive applet, then these problems are
> mostly resolved.
>
> Jon
>
>   
The camera is not currently showing up in /media, but running gphoto2 as 
root finds it OK.
I currently have hal-0.5.4.  I'll try again when hal-0.5.5 shows up.

John