On Saturday 16 February 2002 10:09 pm, Eric Pierce wrote: ------------snip---------------
Well, I tried that, and nothing new shows up when the camera is plugged in. I'm assuming the PDR-M61 just isn't support yet.
I've made an assumption that the PDR-M61 has a smart card in it. If it does then it should act as a usb-storage device (ie you can't control the camera like w/ gphoto but you should at least be able to download the pics off the camera like a hard disk). When I got my wife her camera everything I read said it was unsupported, I was really excited to overcome that. Treating it like a storage device really should work if usb is working on your machine. The only thing I can think might have been missed is plug camera in and turn on then: su password /sbin/modprobe usb-storage (put this in /etc.init.d/boot.local if everything else goes as planned) (I think this was mentioned in an earlier message) this should mount the camera as a storage device If your camera batteries are dead or weak then linux may not see it then: /sbin/fdisk -l heres part of my result: Disk /dev/sdc: 4 heads, 16 sectors, 250 cylinders <-CAMERA Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 bytes <-CAMERA Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System <-CAMERA /dev/sdc1 * 1 250 7987+ 1 FAT12 <-CAMERA Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 33 265041 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 34 4865 38813040 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdc5 34 66 265041 82 Linux swap ----------------------------snip------------------------- -----Below follow the relevant parts of my original message--(fixed)-------- opened a shell became root /sbin/fdisk -l (the letter L) (my camera was shown as /dev/sdc1) created a directory /media/camera added the following line to /etc/fstab /dev/sdc1 /media/camera vfat noauto,user 0 0 added following line to /etc/init.d/boot.local /sbin/modprobe usb-storage (running the above line in a shell as root saves doing a reboot, putting it in boot.local runs it each time you boot up.) created a disk link by right clicking on my kde desktop mount point /media/camera device /dev/sdc1 file system vfat and set permissions as I wanted This really should work. give it one more try let me know how things turn out dh