Digital Camera Support?Forum: Multimedia Topic: Digital Camera Support? started by: silashundt Posted by silashundt on Dec. 12 2005,04:55
Hello DSL community,I am a bit of a newb, and so, please treat absrud questions kindly. I am wondering if a travelers utopia is within reach: if I could use frugal and install DSL on a 512 or 1 gig stick, watch the internet cafes closely and when ever I need to unload some pictures off my digital camera, I could just pop in and throw my pictures from my camera on to that drive. Also, I woulnd't have to worry about sleezy internet cafe folks mucking about with my nicely dsniff'd passwords (don't tell me it cant be done, I have stripped passwords out of hotmail, gmail and yahoo login routines.) Or more just a ghetto banger keystroke logger. Ever since the trip to bulgaria I have been getting spam faster and faster every day.... anyways, niether here nor there. I have been poking around, and it seems that if I could get the libgphoto2 and gphoto2 installed I would be in business. (I am not SO worried about bloat, I could tolerate even a *gigantic* 75 or 100 MB installed size) Again, I am a bit of newb. Is this possible. I am willing to work for it, and my unix skills are pretty solid (I am a certified mac os x specialist, if that means anything these days.) a hint any one? just point me in the right direction.... Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Dec. 12 2005,21:19
Many digicams are already supported. You can mount them like any other USB mass storage device,-J.P. Posted by silashundt on Dec. 12 2005,23:32
wonderful.so, if am running DSL 2.1 off of a CD, first how do I make sure that it reconizes the USB card, second, at what point (before the start up, during the start up, or after everything is up and running) should I plug in the camera (Canon Digital Rebel EX) what do I do? where should I look? thanks, -silas Posted by dmizzel on Dec. 23 2005,01:58
Here's what I do... I have a Nikon d70 (which as a camera... e.g. when I plug it in to the usb, I can't get DSL to recognize it). However, I pull the compact flash out of the camera and insert it into a compact flash usb card reader, then it is just a plain old usb drive according to DSL. I can pull pictures off no problem using emelFM.In this scenario (using emelFM to mount the flash card), it doesn't matter when you plug in the usb compact flash card reader. However, if you want the mount app on the desktop to recognize the flash card, you should insert it before you boot-up. Hope this helps Posted by larkl on Dec. 24 2005,12:50
With my HP camera, I just plug the USB cable into the camera, then mount the camera (/dev/sdaX - I think), and there it is. I actually did it by mistake the first time, I thought that my dual boot PC was in Windows mode, but it was booted into DSL. What a great surprise to see it work!
Posted by brianw on Dec. 29 2005,03:15
Same with my polaroid camera. Just plug in the usb and mount /dev/sda1. In my case there is a directory created in /mnt to show what the number is (i.e. /mnt/sda1). Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 29 2005,20:33
Most modern Digital Cameras are supported in Linux (and in Windows 2000/XP and Mac) as STANDARD USB MASS STORAGE DEVICESSo you can usually mount them as disk drives at /mnt/sda1 for example. For more information on Linux support for your USB devices, please check this website for more information: < http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ > |