[Techtalk] mounting a USB camera

[TechChiq]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 14:29, Hamster wrote:
> I have a USB camera which I am trying to mount under linux. It's a bit of a
> story, so let me explain.
> 
> It's my understanding that there are two ways of accessing a digi camera.
> The first way is using the programme gphoto2. 
> 
> Using gphoto2, everything works. I can download images, so I know at least
> the camera works in some capacity.
> 
> But what I really want to be able to do is to access it the second way.
> This by mounting the camera and accessing the images via the regular file
> system- ie not using the gphoto2 application at all. I understand it uses
> scsi emulation to access the compactflash card as a vfat partition.

That's odd, no sd* devices installed you said later in your message? I
don't know but my system has sd* devices automatically installed so I
think you will need that. Try dir /dev/sda1 and if it comes up, you're
in business. :) But some things that appear to work in gPhoto2 may not
be direct-accessable. My Fuji FinePix 1400 Zoom is directly accessible
(SmartMedia) but it's not listed in gPhoto2.

Here's how I set up my camera (just as a reference, might not work for
you but might hopefully give you some new ideas)...

/sbin/modprobe usb-storage

Edit /etc/auto.master to read: /mnt  /etc/auto.misc  -- TIMEOUT=120

Edit /etc/auto.misc to read: 
  camera  -fstype=vfat,ro,nosuid,nodev   :/dev/sda1

/etc/init.d/autofs restart

Of course this assumes you also have automout in your system as well.
>From there, all you need to do to access the camera would be to go to
/mnt/camera and it should show up. At least, mine did. But my system
seems quite different from yours so this may or may not work. But I do
think you need scsi devices installed because that is one that will be
used for the camera.

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