[PLUG] Digital Camera on Linux
Ian Burrell
ian at znark.com
Sat Sep 25 13:44:02 UTC 2004
Ovid wrote:
>
> I have a Samsung Digimax 430 digital camera and I want to download the pics from it. It was no
> problem on Windows, but my Fedora Core 2 system seems to be having problems.
>
> I've hooked it up to the computer using a USB cable and made sure the camera was on. Running
> "gphoto2 --list-ports" shows a usb port, but "gphoto2 --auto-detect" comes up empty-handed --
> though to be fair, my camera is not listed as supported. And yes, the camera was plugged into the
> USB port and turned on.
>
How do you access it from Windows? Digital cameras can either act like
USB disk drives, or have a proprietary protocol. gphoto talks the
various proprietary protocols. If yours is a newer camera, then it
probably supports mounting as a disk drive. My camera works just fine
with FC2 as a disk drive and not with gphoto.
First thinking is to check if the computer sees the camera as a USB
device. 'lsusb' in the usbutils package is useful for this. Also, look
in /var/log/messages to see if it is being recognized, and if
usb-storage module is loading.
Next, try mounting the filesystem. Usually, it will show up as
/dev/sda1. Try "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt". If this works, you might want
to make a more permanent directory and add it to fstab.
- Ian
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