digital camera +gphoto2

[Bob]

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> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Amadeus W.M.
> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 11:03 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: digital camera +gphoto2
> 
> I have a Canon PowerShot A60 digital camera which in previous releases
> used to work with FC without having to do any configuration.
> 
> Specifically, I would connect the camera to the usb port, turn it on, and
> gthumb-import would pop up and download the images.
> 
> In F8 (and late FC7) gthumb-import would still pop-up, but  I would get
> an error like this:
> 
> "An error occurred in the io-library ('Could not claim the USB device')"
> etc.
> 
> After a google search I figured I had to generate a file
> 
> /etc/udev/rules.d/90-libgphoto2.rules
> 
> like so:
> 
> cd /usr/lib/libgphoto2/
> 
> ./print-camera-list udev-rules version 0.98 mode 644 owner root group
> users > /etc/udev/rules.d/90-libgphoto2.rules
> 
> 
> That is, I'm using udev with the camera. Running ./print-camera-list with
> no arguments shows I could have produced a fdi file for hal, and perhaps
> use that.
> 
> What is the preferred method, udev or hal? Does it matter? And why is it
> not enabled by default? I'm surprised I haven't seen other people mention
> this.
> 
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Here is a thread or two from the Fedora Forums with a workaround for this
problem...

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?postid=902419#poststop

Bob