Digital camera not seen in thunar

[paul1149]

Hi guys,

I have a cannon digital camera that hooks up via usb. When I run the lsusb command, the camera is seen as mounted:

Code:

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04a9:314e Canon, Inc. PowerShot SD750 DIGITAL ELPH / DIGITAL IXUS 75 / IXY DIGITAL 90

However it doesn't show up in Thunar.

The camera works fine on a Windows machine. I didn't find anything in the Help manual on this, so here I am.

Thanks,
Paul

[LL-user]

Hi Paul,

Does the camera show up/work with programs like Skype or guvcview (both in Lite Software). Or while accessing one of the many WebRTC websites like jitsi, talky, appear and starting a random session there?

I never had a webcam showing up in Thunar, and was not expecting it to do so

[paul1149]

Hi LL-user,

It's a digital powershot camera, not a webcam, so I wouldn't expect it to work under those conditions, if I understand them correctly.

Thanks.

[LL-user]

Sorry, my bad. Of course digital camera is not a webcam

Have you seen this thread:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/465090/14...tal-camera

It might give you an indication for trouble shooting.

[paul1149]

Hi,
Yes, thanks, I had seen that page. I just ran the mtp-probe command, and it returned "command not found", which is interesting.

I was hoping to solve this without the gphotofs workaround, but I'll try it if there is no organic solution. The camera worked perfectly on LL 2.8.

[paul1149]

I just tried the gphotofs routine, and got nothing.

[LL-user]

I can't see mtp-probe as a command you type in.

Have a look at the man page of mpt-tools.

Code:

man mtp-tools

The following commands might be of interest:

Code:

mtp-detect
mtp-connect

[paul1149]

Thanks so much, LLU. That was the command given on that page, but it seems to be spurious.

The strange thing is, on reboot this morning the camera was detected perfectly, with no changes here! I'm not aware of any system-shaking event last session,  so I don't know what's at root. I'll keep watching it for a while to see, but for now the problem seems to be over.

Thanks and be well.

[LL-user]

Great you have it working!

You might want to tag it as solved - even if we didn't do anything

[paul1149]

Yes, I think I will, on the ground that someone with this problem might benefit from a reboot, which hadn't occurred to me.

BW.