On Tuesday 27 January 2004 4:37 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Paul W. Abrahams <abrahams@acm.org> [01-27-04 16:31]:
I'm having some difficulties in getting my digital camera to work consistently under Linux. What's the best source of information on hotplugging USB devices?
Best strategy, IMNSHO, is a card-reader (usb2 is faster). They are almost all compatible, don't waste your camera batteries, and are portable, will work on *most* machines, even those from redmon. This makes *all* camera's compatible (depending on memory chip type).
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. Paul Abrahams