usb digital camera problems

[Ante Karamatić]

On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 11:46 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:

>     OK I'll get the flashcard checked out but the camera was being
> used by my wife before and she didn't have any problems. It may be my
> USB is broken but I don't understand how that would come about.

Try connecting your camera to your wife's computer or some other.

>    I have tried both gtkam and gthumb (had to compile gtkam) but
> neither works..the problem seems to be a lack of support for the
> Minolta dimage e201...they have other cameras on the list but not
> mine. Strange because they say 600 are supported and mine is a USB
> mass storage device like many others on the list.

gtkam is in ubuntu's universe repository. You didn't have to compile it,
just apt-get it.

Your camera is mass storage and you don't need any additional software
to use it. Just check your camera on other computer.

>    By the way is it normal for my system not to have a device for
> sda1? I can mount the camera by mounting dev/sda but not sda1- it
> reports no such device.

That's wrong. You shouldn't mount disks, only partitions. I don't know
why your camera has that strange set up.

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