On Friday 11 Mar 2005 17:49, Phlod wrote: > > Well, I don't know how much this will help you, but I had the same > problem with my Powershot A85, and this is how I got it working. > First I installed the usbview package to make sure it was being > detected. It wasn't, so, lacking a great amount of patience, I simply > plugged it into a known working USB slot (the one next to my mouse), and > poof, it showed up on USB View. Using GTKam I simply rescanned for new > cameras, and it showed up. The rest was pretty much self-explanitory. > It's worth mentioning at this point that not all usb slots are equal. Some devices will work perfectly on slots that are directly on the motherboard, but not on slots that are in any sense extensions. It's not only linux, either. My HP printer would not install in windows if I plugged it into a powered usb hub, which is , after all, just an extension of one of the back sockets. And then there's the problem of fake(?) usb2 slots.
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