On Tuesday 28 January 2003 22:13 pm, Derek Fountain wrote:
I have an S40. It's pluggable and works with gphoto2 out of the box.
Thanks... I assume that means it will work as USB mass-storage device and doesn't need the use of gphoto2....
Erm, I have no idea. I connect the camera, type:
cd ~/images/tmp gphoto2 -P
and all the images arrive in my tmp directory. That's as much as I ever do with it. I don't actually know what the usage of a camera as a mass storage device actually gains you. Care to elaborate?
Sure... USB devices that can act as mass-storage devices are handled by the normal USB code in the kernel, meaning that you don't need any extra software or 'unnatural acts' to deal with them. Such devices usually show up as scsi devices (such as /dev/sdc1) and can be mounted as VFAT drives. Once mounted, the contents(images) and possible movie files can be viewed and copied to your hard drive. Make life very simple. Most people report that as soon as they plug their USB cameras into a linux USB port, an icon shows up on their desktop and they can click on it to navigate the camera files. I haven't been that lucky but mounting isn't a big deal. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 01/28/03 23:29 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."