Jeff D wrote:
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, andy wrote:Stefan Monnier wrote:I don't have a card reader, but it sounds like that may not be such a bad thing to get, except that it is probably more hassle to eject the SD cardand reload it into a reader and run the risk of damaging it from frequent handling.Contrary to HS I haven't found the card reader to be noticeably faster, butit does have the advantage of working even when the camera doesn't(e.g. when the battery is empty). Also of course it uses the UMS (UniversalMass Storage) protocol which is very well supported under GNU/Linux.I think that my immediate concerns are now sorted - I can successfullyretrieve images taken. The less pressing issue, but one that will bug me, is the difference between the 2 cameras on one hand and the the differencebetween the 2 machines on the other hand.Regarding the difference between the two cameras I'd simply look at theprotocol they use: most likely the Sony machine uses UMS whereas your Canonuses PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol) which is more recent and less well supported. You may also be able to change your Canon's config to use UMS. StefanStefanThanks for your ideas. I suspect that you are probably right in your assessment of the protocols the different devices use: the Sony registers as a storage device while the Canon is registered as a camera. While this doesn't answer the issue of why on my partner's Etch machine running KDE the icon pops up on her desktop ready to be transferred from but not on my Lenny machine, the matter is now more than workable with the help of the good folk here and the digikam application. For the rest of it, I'll have to file that under that ever-expanding title of WTF? ;-)Cheers Andy --I'm coming into this late, so I'm not sure if this has been mentioned or not. But check to see if usbmount is installed. That allows me to plug in usb drives and mount them.hth, jeff -+-8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Techno.
Thanks Jeff Nope, unfortunately usbmount doesn't help. Cheers for the suggestion though, it was worth a try A -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"