importing from a digital camera

[Maxim]

hmm what if you mount the cam as a USB stick & just copy past the 
pictures... will this work for you ? 

On 7/17/05, Ben Miller <wheelscribe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Corey Bettenhausen wrote:
> > Ben Miller wrote:
> >
> >> I've been trying to import photos from my camera for the first time,
> >> running Hoary 5.04. I'm prompted to import photos and gthumb starts
> >> with no problem. However, as Linux starts polling my camera I get this
> >> message: 'The filesystem doesn't support getting file information' and
> >> nothing else seems to happen, save for a persistent 'getting data'
> >> message.
> >>
> >> Any clues?
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help,
> >> Ben
> >>
> >
> > You might want to try the following command on the commandline:
> > gphoto2 --auto-detect --get-all-files
> >
> > What's the output? Any obvious errors? What camera are you using?
> > -Corey
> >
> 
> Thanks, Cory. I'm using a Kodak DC280. First, I had to install gphoto2.
> (Thank you, apt-get). When I run the command you provided, gphoto sees
> the camera and starts to download the first photo and then provides the
> following error message:
> *** Error ***
> An error occurred in the io-library ('Timeout reading from or writing to
> the port'): Could not query kernel driver of device.
> *** Error (-10: 'Timeout reading from or writing to the port') ***
> 
> I would read that as a timeout error, but I'm not sure beyond that.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
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