Where is a Camera Mount Point?
poma
pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Sat Oct 25 02:31:03 UTC 2014
On 25.10.2014 03:19, poma wrote:
> On 25.10.2014 02:09, poma wrote:
>> On 25.10.2014 01:31, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>> On 10/25/2014 01:09 AM, poma wrote:
>>>> On 24.10.2014 07:50, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>>>> I have plugged a digital camera into my usb port and mounted it using
>>>>> the popup displayed from the auto detect via konqueror (this annoys me
>>>>> as well). When konqueror is launched it displays the contents via
>>>>> Camera:/ which is okay, but subsequently I can't find any entries under
>>>>> /run that represent the camera. I assumed there would be a mount point
>>>>> under /run like there is for a usb flash disk. Given that there appears
>>>>> to not be a mount point under /run, where is it mounted in Fedora 20, so
>>>>> that I can point dolphin (which is what should be launched from the
>>>>> 'Open with File Manager' prompt, not Konqueror) at the mount point
>>>>> rather than having to manually type Camera:/ into the address bar.
>>>> ptp != usb_storage
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Transfer_Protocol
>>>> http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/
>>>>
>>>> modinfo -d usb_storage
>>>> USB Mass Storage driver for Linux
>>>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/drivers/usb/storage/Kconfig
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> poma
>>>>
>>> Thankyou for the links. I looked at those links which gave me a lot more
>>> information that I didn't know about. Unfortunately the documentation on
>>> libphoto2 seems to potentially be self conflicting. The list of cameras
>>> that libphoto2 supports seems to have my Nikon D3100 listed, but the
>>> list of cameras and how they are supported under Unix does not appear to
>>> list my camera.
>>> Following Cameron's email I checked the mount list which seems to
>>> indicate there is no mount point, which also coincides with the
>>> available device interface in the system tray not being able to unmount
>>> the camera before disconnection.
>>> Also now that I have changed to application preference order in the
>>> properties of the folder displayed by dolphin, whenever I select 'Open
>>> with File Manager' at device detection time the process correctly
>>> launched dolphin to display the contents, whereas yesterday when
>>> konqueror was the default application, manually pointing dolphin at
>>> Camera:/ would not display the contents of the camera because dolphin
>>> was trying to treat the camera as a usb device and couldn't acquire the
>>> usb. The only issue with dolphin is it doesn't display the folder name
>>> where the images are stored on the camera as the same name that the
>>> camera says it is, dolphin seems to be putting its own prefix on the
>>> folder name.
>>> Also dolphin seems to be starting at a higher point in the directory
>>> tree for its displays than where Windows starts.
>>> DigiKam now seems be displaying the files on the camera now as well,
>>> whereas yesterday it couldn't either, although digiKam doesn't
>>> understand the raw format files that I am taking with the camera. I
>>> could use jpeg images but that is not as good for image manipulation and
>>> corrections as raw is. I can process these files using the raw interface
>>> to Photoshop Elements and Elements itself, albeit under windows, so not
>>> being able to access these under Linux is not that big a deal to me,
>>> other than the fact that I have to use Windows.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Steve
>>>
>>
>> Does the Nikon D3100 supports USB mass storage mode?
>> http://goo.gl/7bGFuh
>>
>
>
> In this respect manual(D3100_EN.pdf) is questionable
> http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Nikon-Products/Product/dslr-cameras/D3100.html#tab-ProductDetail-ProductTabs-Support
>
> Therefore you can try this *if* the device supports both - PictBridge(PTP) & USB storage, and they collide:
>
> /etc/modprobe.d/usb_storage-quirks-Nikon_D3100.conf
> # Nikon D3100
> #
> # lsusb
> # ID 04b0:0130 Nikon Corp. Coolpix 4600 (ptp)
> # ID 04b0:0427 Nikon Corp.
> # modinfo -p usb_storage
> # ...
> # quirks:supplemental list of device IDs and their quirks (string)
> #
> # 1.
> options usb_storage quirks=04b0:0130:i
> #
> # 2.
> # options usb_storage quirks=04b0:0427:i
> #
> # 3.
> # options usb_storage quirks=04b0:0130:i,04b0:0427:i
> #
> # *uncomment* only *one* of the three *options* that you'll *use* as the first case!
>
>
> Ref.
> - https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> ..
> usb-storage.quirks=
> [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
> override the built-in unusual_devs list. List
> entries are separated by commas. Each entry has
> the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
> and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
> Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
> to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
> ...
> i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
> device);
> ...
> Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
>
> - https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt
>
> - USB: add Nikon D300 camera to unusual_devs
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h?id=0047ca0
>
>
BTW
- Nikon D3100 specifications
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond3100/page2.asp
...
Connectivity • USB 2.0 (Hi-Speed)
• Mass storage / PTP selectable
- Digikam support Nikon D3100
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.digikam.user/14517
Xfce
- USB storage
$ thunar /run/media/user/</dev/disk/by-uuid/>/
- MTP (Media Transfer Protocol)
$ thunar mtp://[usb:<bus>,<devnum>]/
- PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol)
$ thunar gphoto2://[usb:<bus>,<devnum>]/
Good luck with reading and playing with the device. :)
poma
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