Thanks, shutting off devfs seemed to do the trick. One question:
when you delete the files using your file manager or the command line, does your camera realize that they're gone, or does it still think that they're there. It seems like my camera insists they are still there until I delete the pictures from the camera itself... David --- Chris Spackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Joham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to get my new Olympus digital camera to work with > Mandrake > > 8.2 and I'm having some problems. I'm hoping someone can help me > out. > > [snip] > > > At this point, it looks like a USB problem rather than a gphoto > > probelm. > > [snip] > > > At this point, I'm clueless as to what to do next. I've tried this > on > > two separate computers with the same results. One computer had a > > "recommended" install while the other had an "expert" install with > just > > about everything under the sun installed. I'm new to USB (this > being my > > first USB device) and also to gphoto2 so if there is an obvious > > solution, please be kind :) > > [snip] > > > I get that `missing mass storage driver' message too, but it doesn't > seem to matter. > > Do you have to use gphoto2? Would you be adverse to merely mounting > your camera as a usb storage device and copying pictures from it to > the hard drive? Sorry, but i cannot help with gphoto2. > > It looks like you are using devfs. Have you tried without it? Maybe > someone knows an easy way to find where devfs puts newly mounted usb > storage devices, but i could never figure it out so i dumped > devfs. Under the traditional dev system, my digital camera is > /dev/sda1. The fstab entry looks like this: > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat > iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev 0 0 > > so, > > mount /mnt/camera > cp /mnt/camera/blah/*jpg ./ > > is all you need. > > -- > Chris Spackman > > gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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