[vox-tech] GUI for Camera on Sarge?

[Jonathan Stickel]

Bob

I think you are on the right track.  I've noticed also with Fedora that 
it automatically edits /etc/fstab when usb storage devices are attached 
or removed (cameras sometimes behave as storage devices).  I'm not sure 
what daemon does this, but I don't think it is submount.  It might be 
something called "HAL" that was mentioned previously on this list.

A simpler thing to do is just add the right line to /etc/fstab 
permanently, yourself.  Then you can have an icon on your KDE desktop to 
mount/unmout the device (/dev/sda1).  You will, however, need the 
correct options, including "user(s)" which allows non-root users to mount.

Jonathan


Bob Scofield wrote:
> I had some questions arising out of my effort to set Sarge up like SuSE, which 
> allows me to drag and drop pictures from a digital camera to my hard drive.  
> On SuSE I just go to the My Computer icon, and click on an icon for a USB 
> disk.  This all happens in the Konqueror web browser.
> 
> A few weeks ago Bill gave Pete directions on how to set up the My Computer 
> icon on KDE.  I've followed those directions, but have been unsuccessful in 
> getting an icon that will give me a GUI access to the camera.
> 
> The first problems I encountered were permissions problems; e.g. "Only root 
> can mount /dev/sda1 on /media/camera."  I still haven't solved these 
> problems.  It's confusing because /dev/sda1 seems to have the same 
> permissions on SuSE and Debian.  But I have become interested in the 
> following issue.
> 
> One error message is something like "/dev/sda1 is not found in fstab or mtab."  
> In SuSE the following entry automatically appears in mtab any time that the 
> camera is plugged into the usb port:  
> "/dev/sda1 /media/usb-0039731344:0:0:0p1 subfs rw,no 
> exec,nodev,sync,procuid,iocharset=utf8   0   0."  In my cheesy way, I began 
> putting variations of this entry into my Sarge fstab.  I got different error 
> messages, but became interested in the one that said that the Sarge kernel 
> had no support for subfs.
> 
> After Googling, I came across this website:  http://submount.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I am starting to think that SuSE is automatically mounting the usb port when 
> the camera is attached because of "Submount."  The web site claims that Sarge 
> is one of the distros that has a binary form of Submount available.  But I 
> can't find such a package on the Debian website.  So here are my questions:
> 
> 1)  Do people agree that it's Submount that is allowing SuSE to automatically 
> mount the usb port when the camera is plugged into the computer?
> 
> 2)  Does anybody know if Sarge has a Submount package that can be gotten with 
> apt-get?
> 
> 3)  Is anybody dragging and dropping camera photos from the camera to the 
> computer on Debian?  If so, how do you set this up?
> 
> I may be back later for the permissions issues.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bob
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