Digital camera detected as photo card, but has generic drive icon

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Ubuntu 6.10; Ubuntu Hardy alpha 3

When I plug in my Pentax Optio S50 digital camera via USB, an alert pops up telling me that a photo card has been detected, and asking me if I'd like to import the pictures. However, the icon that appears on the desktop is that of a generic disk drive.

What should happen: If Ubuntu knows that it's a photo card, its icon should look like a photo card (or a camera, since a photo card will usually be connected using a camera rather than a dedicated card reader).

[Albrecht Mühlenschulte (a7p)]

Could you please give the precise Ubuntu version you are using and the camera modell which appears as a generic drive?

Having the last few messages in /var/log/messages.log might also be helpful
( $tail /var/log/messages.log > camera_pluged_in.log
after after plugin in the camera should do. )

[Albrecht Mühlenschulte (a7p)]

Okay, I think now we've got all the information needed to take care of this bug, if wanted. I remember seeing the same behavior @macosx.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Yes, Mac OS X (10.3, at least) has the same bug. :-) Let's do better!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Can you please try a current Hardy live CD, or at least a Gutsy (7.10) one? Thank you!

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

The same happens with Ubuntu Hardy alpha 3.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

In Ubuntu Hardy beta, this bug is masked by bug 209525.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you run lshal > log when the camera is plugged to the computer and attach the log the bug?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to 'New'. Thanks again!