Thanks all. As soon as management gets back with some new batteries fro the camera, I'll give the suggestions a whirl.
Best regards, Marbux On 8/15/07, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I second the card reader suggestion. I don't even use my camera's > USB. > > I see the HP Photosmart m305 uses MMC or SD. I heard Linux now > supports SD, but I haven't tried it. MMC is no problem. If you > have trouble with SD, switch to MMC. > > But be sure the MMC reader you buy is supported. A lot of card > readers don't work under Linux. A good way to go is to buy it > from a vendor that supports Linux or says the reader works with > Linux. > -- > Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ > There are four kinds of homicide: Felonious, excusable, justifiable, > and praiseworthy. --- Ambrose Bierce > > marbux wrote: > > I'm down with a bad cold, full of aspirin, liquids, and over-the-counter > > cold symptom relievers that have left me brainless. My plan for coping > > called for lots of naps with all hope of getting any work done abandoned > > during my waking hours, which would be spent playing Shishen-Sho on my > > computer. But Household Management has shot down that plan, informing me > > that if I'm well enough to play Shishen-Sho, I'm well enough to get the > > computer to talk to her HP Photosmart m305 camera so she can unload the > > camera onto my hard drive. My pleas that I couldn't do that without a > > functioning brain, but was overruled. So I need some assistance so I can > > get back to my plan for surviving the cold. > > > > I've got fully patched Mepis 6.5 SMP (derived from Kubuntu Dapper) > > running, sort of, on a new Intel D946GZIS motherboard and a dual core > > processor. My boot log is full of error messages, principally having to > > do with a need to persuade Intel to do a better job with its BIOS and > > the 915 screen resolution driver being non-functional. > > > > But the immediate problem is that the system does not autodetect the > > camera, the manual install includes no driver for the particular camera, > > and I can't find one for it. That wasn't a problem with Mepis when I was > > still running an i586 processor. > > > > The upshot is that I would really appreciate a suggestion for where to > > start working around this problem. If I can get this camera thing > > solved, then I can return to my recovery plan and deal with the other > > problems later. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Marbux > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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