nikon coolpix 885 ptp fdi trouble

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 21:30 +0200, Mattias Eriksson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I created the fdi file nikon-coolpix-885-ptp.fdi to enable proper
> detection of my camera in ptp-mode with gnome-colume manager. The fdi
> file looks like this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
> 
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>   <device>
>     <match key="info.bus" string="usb">
>       <match key="usb.vendor_id" int="0x04b0">
>         <match key="usb.product_id" int="0x0112">
>           <merge key="info.category" type="string">camera</merge>
>           <merge key="info.capabilities" type="string">camera</merge>
>           <merge key="info.persistent" type="bool">true</merge>
>         </match>
>       </match>
>     </match>
>   </device>
> </deviceinfo>
> 

Looks good so far.

> 
> When I restart hal, start gnome-volume-manager and start the camera I
> get the folowing output from gnome-volume-manager:
> 
> libhal.c 800 : Error sending msg: No property info.capabilities on
> device with id
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_4b0_112_100_-1_000005313251
> libhal.c 800 : Error sending msg: No property info.capabilities on
> device with id
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usbif_usb_4b0_112_100_-1_000005313251_0
> 
> 
> I can set the properties by hand doing:
> hal-set-property --key info.capabilities --string camera --udi
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_4b0_112_100_-1_000005313251
> 
> 
> I created the fdi file by copying the canon camera fdi file and just
> modified the usb vendor and product id. Shouldn't that be 0.026-1enough,
> or is there some bug with hal?
> 
> I use hal version 0.2.92 from debian unstable with udev 0.026. 
> Any ideas what is going wrong?

If you can provide the output of lshal when hald is running and the
output when running 'hald --daemon=no' (as root) while plugging in your
camera it would help a lot.

Thanks,
David



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