* Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@acm.org> [01-27-04 18:06]:
Actually my camera is a USB mass storage type, so as far as Linux is concerned it does look like a card reader. The issues troubling me have to do with the intermittency of the mount. My impression is that the USB device, which happens to be a camera but need not be, should be automounted soon after it's connected. But that's not happening (I can mount it explicitly, though). So there's some piece of setup I need to do but I don't know what it is, nor do I know where to read about it.
I observe the same phenomenon. Sometimes a desktop object appears and other times it doesn't. I use kwikdisk to mount/umount my card reader. My camera is also recognized as a usb mass storage device, but I prefer the card reader. A work-around would be to add the possible devices to your /etc/fstab. Then they would always be available. *** Until you unplug one w/o umounting - then you are lost (at least that has been my experience). -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org