[kde-linux] USB camera

[Andrew Walbran]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 4:26 pm, Chakkaradeep C C wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On 4/16/06, Andrew Walbran <qwandor at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:34 pm, SnapafunFrank wrote:
> > > Andrew Walbran wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > When I plug my digital camera into my computer, KDE opens its new
> > > > medium
> > > > window, saying that a new 'Unmounted Removable Medium' has been
> > > > detected,
> > > > and giving an option to open it in a new window. However, the
> > > > configuration dialogue has a specific 'Camera' option. How does KDE
> > > > decide whether the new medium is a camera, and how can I make it
> > > > recognise my camera as such?
> > > Did you turn your camera on ?
> > Yes. The problem is not that it is not detected, but that it shows up as
> > generic removable media rather than as a camera.
> >
> > I suspect that I will have to add some sort of identification code to
> > some file, but I don't know where.
>
> If nothing works out, you need to play with udev rules and hal to instruct
> them to mount your camera device  when it is detected. As what device is it
> getting identified? (/dev/sda or  /dev/sdb). I dont think this is a KDE
> problem.It would be good if you could go thru writing udev rules.
It is identified as /dev/sdb (/dev/sda is my internal SATA hard drive). I 
don't want it automatically mounted, I just want KDE to recognise it as a 
camera rather than as generic removable media. How does KDE determine whether 
a USB mass storage device is a camera or not?

-- 
Andrew Walbran
website: http://user.interface.org.nz/~andrew/
blog: http://qwandor.wordpress.com/
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