HAL provides Canon Digital IXUS 40 but not Canon Powershot G2 to system (solved)

[Marcus Meissner]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:27:28PM +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Monday 12 June 2006 16:51, Matthew Munro wrote:
> [...]
> > In `/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty', I
> > found a file called `10-camera-libgphoto2.fdi', which
> > contained descriptions of lots of cameras.  The
> > `camera.access_method' value of the G2 was
> > `proprietary' whereas that of the IXUS was `ptp'.
> >
> > And then, in `/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty'
> > was a file called `90-gphoto-camera-policy.fdi', which
> > contained a `ptp' reference, but nothing about
> > `proprietary'.
> [...]
> 
> This files are not part of the HAL package. They come from gphoto2. You should 
> report the problem against this package.

While the 90-gphoto-camera-policy.fdi is from libgphoto2,
it should catch proprietary too.

Perhaps it was replaced by your distro.

Ciao, Marcus