Olympus D-540 camera + umass = crash

[Lars Eighner]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Toomas Aas wrote:

> Sunday 05 April 2009 10:29:10 kirjutas Lars Eighner:
>
>> A number of upgrade cycles ago, when I loaded umass, I could plug in my
>> Olympus D-540 camera.  It would be recognized as a da device and could be
>> mounted as a FAT drive (i.e. msdosfs).
>
> [...]
>
>> Eventually the HPLIP driver was improved to the point that it broke the
>> scan, fax, and card reader functions.  But it still works as a printer.
>> Meanwhile it seems umass was upgraded to the point that it can no longer
>> use the camera.  So I cannot get photos out of my camera either way.
>
> Can you set the camera to PTP mode?

I don't know what that is, so I suppose the answer is no.

> If so, you may be able to use gtkam to get photos out of the camera.  It's
> the only way my RELENG_7 box is able to talk to my Nikon Coolpix L5, which
> caused the machine to crash when used in umass mode
> (http://lnk.nu/freebsd.org/u9q.cgi).

Did it work on previous releases?

My camera worked on some release in the past and many releases prior to
that.  Somebody broke umass.  All I am asking of that person is: when did
you break umass, so I can downgrade to just before that.

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