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The new camera is a Fuji Finepix S8200.
What I've found so far.

Mandriva 2008.1 can mount it and download pictures.
Mageia1 can mount it and download pictures.
Mageia2 cannot see it.
Mageia3 and 4 see it but can't mount it.

My old but on it's last legs Fuji Finepix S3000 is seen and can be mounted by all the above systems.

I'm just wondering if anyone has this camera and has gotten it to work with supported Mageia systems?

Update: drakdisk in Mageia4 sees the S3000 as a hard drive not so the S8200.

dmesg messages when each camera is plugged in and powered up.

Old camera

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[524397.693336] usb 6-3: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ohci-pci
[524397.850566] usb 6-3: New USB device found, idVendor=04cb, idProduct=013c
[524397.850578] usb 6-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[524397.850585] usb 6-3: Product: USB Mass Storage
[524397.850591] usb 6-3: SerialNumber: Y-610^^^^^031128XFPX0004039608
[524397.852571] usb-storage 6-3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[524397.852739] scsi13 : usb-storage 6-3:1.0
[524398.862843] scsi 13:0:0:0: Direct-Access     FUJIFILM USB-DRIVEUNIT    1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[524398.875750] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] 512000 512-byte logical blocks: (262 MB/250 MiB)
[524398.886802] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[524398.886814] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
[524398.897795] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found
[524398.897801] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[524398.943893] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found
[524398.943898] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[524398.963914]  sdc: sdc1
[524399.018943] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found
[524399.018956] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[524399.018964] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk

New camera

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[522552.202689] usb 2-6: new high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci
[522552.320907] usb 2-6: New USB device found, idVendor=04cb, idProduct=02a3
[522552.320919] usb 2-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[522552.320926] usb 2-6: Product: USB PTP
[522552.320932] usb 2-6: SerialNumber: 592D323830343213040217A53SC90197

I'll have to look up "USB PTP" then check how the older systems are seeing it.

Edit: PTP is Picture Transfer Protocol.

Ken, maybe it's a stupid question but anyway. Does your new camera has an option for USB Mass Storage on USB connect? AFAIK most of cameras did have that.

Hi ken,
Did you try with Gimp ? It can see cameras Dolphin don't.

@ Lebarhon
Nice thought on Gimp but even it can't access an unmounted file system.

@filip
Yes the camera is presenting itself as a USB drive as evidenced by the ability of Mageia1 to mount it.

I've checked the dmesg output on all linux OS's that I have and all are the same.

I guess it's time for a bug report once I figure out which component to file it against.

What about DigiKam?

Did you tried with PTP also?

Is any of this useful to you?

Thanks for the link filip but it's for older cameras that presented themselves as mass storage devices.
This camera presents itself as USB-PTP which the operating system sees as a Web Camera.
Mandriva 2008.1 and Mageia1 handle this and are able to connect to it, download from it and can even delete unwanted pictures from it.
Mageia2 totally ignores it.
Mageia3 and 4 see it and try to access it but never succeed.

There might be something I'm missing, I just don't know what.

Maybe you can check the logs for any MTP / PTP issues?

Also you may want to try gphoto or shotwell.

doktor5000 wrote:Also you may want to try gphoto or shotwell.

Thanks for the slap upside the head Doktor, I needed it.
gphoto and shotwell can access the camera just fine.

It would appear that the device notifier settings for this type of camera broke after Mageia1 which is a subject for another thread.
I'll mark this one as solved.

I would be looking in udev for the basic problem. Probably a missing or malformed rule.

Ken-Bergen wrote:

doktor5000 wrote:Also you may want to try gphoto or shotwell.

Thanks for the slap upside the head Doktor, I needed it.
gphoto and shotwell can access the camera just fine.

You're welcome