USB Camera auto-unmount?

tactless · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 10:32 pm Post subject: USB Camera auto-unmount?

I've just tried connecting my HP 850 camera (USB Mass Storage) to a friend's computer running Mandrake 9.2. In the nice mandrake way, it just popped up nicely... additionally, I didn't have to unmount it when I disconnected it. It just worked. Like in Windows. In my installation of Gentoo, however, I must unmount the camera first, or otherwise the camera won't turn on (basically, it wouldn't have turned off, I guess) until I reconnect it and unmount it. Is it possible to change this? How does Mandrake solve this?
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GentooBox · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1168 Location: Denmark

http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/

hotplug kan do stuff like that

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tactless · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:12 am Post subject:

I've tried messing with Hotplug, but had little success...
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tactless · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject:

Shameless bump
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r2dtu · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 87

I'm very happy with hotplug and supermount.
Look at this thread.
edit: link fixed

tactless · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:17 pm Post subject:

I'm pretty sure that's the wrong thread...
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gonzalo · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:26 pm Post subject:

If it helps you, adding a line with the camera's /dev/ and mount point to fstab enable you to right click on the gnome desktop (if you are using gnome), select Disks>Camera and it appears mounted. To unmount, right click on camera's icon>unmount.

tactless · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject:

I know how to mount and unmount easily... my personal favorite is doing it with gkrellm. It's more of a nag issue, actually:
When I plug in my camera and mount it, then unmount it before turning it off, everything is just dandy. The problem is that sometimes I forget to unmount it.
Now, if I unplug the camera, everything is fine (using sync and dirsync for mounting), and it automatically turns itself off. However, if I turn the camera off when it's mounted, it waits for me to unmount it before shutting off. If I disconnect it, it won't turn back on until I reconnect it and unmount it, or take the batteries out. However - in Windows XP, turning the camera off causes it to be unmounted by the system. I'm pretty sure this happens in Mandrake Linux too, probably with supermount. So I need something that'll capture the camera-shutdown event (dmesg and /var/log/everything current don't see it)... I guess I'll go ahead and give supermount a try then.
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