On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Luya Tshimbalanga <luya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2018-11-08 8:33 a.m., Chris Murphy wrote: >> > The work around for this is to install fuse-exfat from RPM Fusion, and > >> > set the camera to Mass Storage setting, and now the storage card is > >> > directly mounted automatically. So this isn't a show stopper bug, but > I'd >> > say it's suboptimal for showcasing free software. Using MTP > obviates the >> > need for the host directly mounting the storage card's > file system, and >> > it's also safer. > > Any next step ideas? > > Based on that information, the >> > memory card uses the patented exfat format which cannot be included for >> > legal reasons. See https://www.wikiwand.com/en/ExFAT I'm not expecting exfat support to be included. I only mentioned that as the work around. The preferable outcome is for MTP mounting to work out of the box, which means the camera itself handles the exfat format while communicating with the host using MTP. The questions: whether this looks like a kernel bug or mtp-probe bug; if it's an mtp-probe bug are there any alternatives to libmtp that are better that Fedora should be using instead? Off hand I'm not finding anything, but Chrome has MTP support, I'm just not sure how they're doing it. I'm also not sure if GNOME has a hard dependency on mtp-probe or if there's a better way to do this, maybe directly in GNOME Photos. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
