Gthumb and Canon camera.

[Frederic Peters]

Martin Pitt wrote:

> On 2004-09-20 13:52 -0700, George Farris wrote:
> > I have a Canon PowerShot G2, very common camera and nothing happens when
> > I plug it in.  The USB/HAL system sees it but gthumb doesn't run.  I can
> > run gthumb manually and import and it sees the camera.  Is there a place
> > to add these things to HAL?
> 
> Not for Warty any more, but I already have an idea how to achieve this
> in Hoary. This has already been reported as 
> https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509

Wouldn't a newer hal package be enough ?

Specifically this patch
  http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/hal-commit/2004-August/000393.html
with tools/linux/hal_hotplug_map.c usbmapfiles variable modified to
add /etc/hotplug/usb/libgphoto2.usermap ?


Regards,
        Frederic