[Digikam-users] Camera import - Olympus C-460 - should be easier than this

[Chris G]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:25:03AM +0200, Christoph Bergemann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Digikam recognises and imports pictures without any hassle at all from
> > my new[ish] Fuji S8000FD but getting pictures from my older Olympus
> > C-460 is a bit more hassle and I'm wondering if I'm missing something.
> in fact digikam uses libgphoto2 to connect to the camera and does not have its 
> own library. 
> 
OK.
> 
> > To get pictures from the C-460 I have to manually mount the USB mass
> > storage device that appears when the camera is plugged in. As I have
> > to inspect /var/log/messages to find the device name and I have to do
> > this as root this is hardly 'user friendly'.  (This is on Fedora 8 by
> > the way).
> Automounting is usually done via HAL and DBUS but it is strange that your 
> system doesn't do this. Even in Gentoo this worked rather out of the box.
> 
OK, thanks, I've posted a question on the Fedora list about this.

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Chris Green