[arch-general] digital camera not showing as mass storage device

Matthew Monaco dgbaley27 at verizon.net
Wed Sep 8 06:57:02 EDT 2010


On 09/08/2010 05:37 AM, Christoffer Hirth wrote:
> Matthew Monaco wrote:
>> I can get my digital camera to work with libgphoto stuff like shotwell, but
>> for months now it simply won't show up as a mass storage device. Am I missing
>> a kernel module or something? I loaded usb-storage.
>>
>> I downloaded the Ubuntu 10.10 beta live CD, plugged the camera in, and it
>> popped up fine as a hard disk /dev/sdX...
>>
>> In the logs I see a load-modules.sh error.
>>
>> Please advise.
>>
> I assume you are using gnome?
>
> In that case you should read gvfs optdepends. In particular you need gvfs-gphoto2
>
> Christoffer
>

Thank you kindly. I could have sworn the camera used to show up as /dev/sdX onto 
/media/*. But it's been so long at this point I could just be mistaken.


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