[KLUG Members] Error Using Digital Camera

[Bruce Smith]

> > 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.

Just curious, but how old of a camera is this?  Not how long you've
owned it, but is this old technology before they started using the USB
mass storage stuff?  I hope so, because I'd hate to think they are
switching to some other protocol in new cameras now!

 - BS