hmm what if you mount the cam as a USB stick & just copy past the pictures... will this work for you ? <div>On 7/17/05, Ben Miller <<a href="mailto:wheelscribe@gmail.com"> wheelscribe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Maxim ( msn: <a href="mailto:m@xim.uni.cc">m@xim.uni.cc</a> ) <a href="http://www.xim.uni.cc">www.xim.uni.cc</a>