thought i'd ask *before* i broke it . . .

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Net Llama! wrote:

> On 04/29/2005 05:40 PM, dep wrote:
>
>> greets, one and all . . .
>>
>> i have acquited a canon sd400 digital camera -- one of the really
>> tiny 5mp things -- which appears to work just fine. so now i
>> have a camera full of pictures and no way that i know of to
>> squeeze 'em out into the computer. the connector on the camera is
>> usb (supports usb2 -- i'm hoping for backward compatability,
>> though i may be able to fiddle with the bios and cause usb2
>> support to spring forth). my sense is that i do not simply plug
>> the camera into the computer and presume that something magical
>> will happen. i suspect that at minimum i have to mount the thing,
>> but i have no idea what it would be and am a little hesitant to
>> go through the 375,000 things in /dev.
>>
>> so. be there a tutorial on this that anybody knows about; in
>> addition, is there the need for some kind of driver that i'm sure
>> doesn't yet exist?
>>
>> thanks.
>
>
> Its a SCSI device, plug it in, and look at dmesg output.
>
Or if you are using KDE on SuSE, plug it in and wait up to a couple
minutes.  Many USB cameras (as with USB thumb-drives) will appear on
the desktop, or in the Devices section (you can get there many ways,
try "devices:/" in the Konqueror window, or in the navigation pane on
the left there is an options called "Services", with a "Devices" section).

If it is this kind of device, SuSE's Hotplug daemon will identify it
as a storage device and either put an entry in /etc/fstab or simply
automount it, in which case it will show up in /proc/mounts.

Hope this helps and that it finds you well.

Matt

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