[KLUG Members] Error Using Digital Camera

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> >>> I have a Kodak EasyShare Z740 digital camera.  When connected to  
> >>> my SuSe
> >>> 10 Laptop F-Spot (0.1.2) immediately opens and displays  
> >>> thumbnails of
> >>> all the images in the camera.  And it asks if I want to import these
> >>> photos.  I click the button to proceed and it stops with...
> >> USB?
> > Yes.
> >> What's /var/log/messages say?
> > Just - Dec 11 14:39:38 aleph kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB  
> > device
> > using uhci_hcd and address 4
> Did you try mounting the USB device manually?
> It seems like I had to do that once.
> "fdisk -l" usually shows what device it's assigned.

It doesn't seem to show up as a mass storage device,  it is something
called a PTP device (I have no idea what that means technically).  But I
did manage to download the images;  f-spot wouldn't work,  but I
installed gtkam (the gphoto2 front-end) and ran that manually.  At first
it didn't work, I got a "PTP protocol error, expecting data".  Then I
tried again and entered a filename prefix in the same/import dialog...
and it worked!  So I'm suspecting it is actually an application bug and
has nothing to do with the camera.  It would be nice if the f-spot thing
worked as it pops up automatically,  but maybe I can figure out how to
make that thing go now that I've gotten gtkam to work.  I though it was
odd that I could view thumbnails/previews, camera information, etc...
but not download the images.