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Date:      Tue, 18 May 2004 07:29:34 -0400
From:      Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca>
To:        Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!!
Message-ID:  <40A9F39E.2050302@gldis.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200405180909.41418.ben@spooty.net>
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Ben Paley wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 May 2004 04:02, Mike Jeays wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:16, Jason Taylor wrote:
>>
>>>I have a similar situation with a Cannon Powershot A40.  I can't mount
>>>it, but gphoto is able to access it.  I had to modify a config file or
>>>two in order for the ugen devices to be created writable by anyone other
>>>than root.  Sorry, I don't have access to that box at the moment or I'd
>>>offer something a bit more concrete.
> 
> 
> gphoto2 turns out to work fine, thanks very much! I wonder why Digikam doesn't 
> work, then?
> 
> 
>>I have a Canon Powershot A70, and the same problem.  I bought a SanDisk
>>card reader, and it works perfectly with a Compact Flash card that has
>>been used in the A70.  It can be mounted as
>>mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt
> 
> 
> This may turn out to be the easiest thing in the long run: certainly my wife 
> and kids aren't going to want to learn a CLI for getting at their snaps. I 
> guess it's either a) buy a cardreader, b) get Digikam to work or c) something 
> else I don't know about yet.
> 
> Thanks for both your help,
> Ben

There are GUI's for gphoto2 in the ports tree. I use gtkam.
/usr/ports/graphics/gtkam

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Jeremy Faulkner				http://www.gldis.ca



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