gtkam?

[rolf]

Does anyone else use gtkam? I don't see it in repos.

[doktor5000]

Don't you like cheese? Can gtkcam do anything that cheese can't?

[rolf]

I use gtkam for a usb cable-connected digital camera, a Canon PowerShot A590, to download photos, have done so for years up to Mandriva 2010.2. I don't see that Cheese works with digital cameras.

I have installed the Mandriva 2011 gtkam and its dependencies but it will not detect any camera. Similarly, device notifier in Mageia gives me an option to open in file manager, which leads to an unknown camera/unknown model error message, no files are shown in the directory:


I can use the same camera on a Mandriva installation and gtkam works. I can take out the SDHC card and pull files off with a card reader, not the best, compared to past usage. Gtkam camera setup shows no cameras, whereas it usually has a list in the gui, and I wonder if it is related to a missing camera database in libgphoto or something similar.

4.3.2. USB ports on Linux using HAL

This section describes how to set up USB device permissions using HAL. Due to this article's author's cluelessness about HAL, it just describes the HAL setup provided by the Fedora Core 6 (FC6) gphoto2 RPM package.

The libgphoto2 specific part of the HAL configuration consists of two parts: The device list and a policy. Each is stored in its own file.

The device list file contains a list of all devices supported by libgphoto2 in any fashion and giving HAL information as to the device's capabilities. You can generate this file using the print-camera-list utility shipped with libgphoto2:

host:~# /usr/lib/libgphoto2/print-camera-list hal-fdi > libgphoto2.fdi

The FC6 gphoto2 package stores this file as /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/10-camera-libgphoto2.fdi. Its content looks like:

http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html

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[rolf@localhost ~]$ urpmf usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/10-camera-libgphoto2.fdi
libgphoto-common:/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/10-camera-libgphoto2.fdi
libgphoto-common:/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/10-camera-libgphoto2.fdi
[rolf@localhost ~]$ ll /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/10-camera-libgphoto2.fdi
ls: cannot access /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/10-camera-libgphoto2.fdi: No such file or directory

[rolf@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep photo
gvfs-gphoto2-1.6.7-2.mga1
lib64gphoto2-2.4.10.1-1.mga1
gphoto2-2.4.10-2.mga1
libgphoto-common-2.4.11-1

[root@localhost rolf]# lsusb|grep -i canon
Bus 001 Device 014: ID 04a9:3176 Canon, Inc. PowerShot A590


[doktor5000]

Oh, sorry, nevermind my comment, from the name i've mistaken it for some webcam application.

[seagull]

Does anyone else use gtkam? I don't see it in repos.

Let's hope it will be added. It is a great little digital camera image downloader without the bloat or complexity of some other related programs.