On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:22:47 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [Beck] on Thursday 20 October 2005 20:24 \__
>
>> Running Ubuntu Breezy Badger.
>>
>> After some of you so kindly helped with my wireless connection I thought
>> I would ask something else if you can help please.
>>
>> I have a Fujifilm S5500 digital camera. Upon plugging in the camera
>> (usb) ubuntu recognises it by placing a fujifilm drive in the drive
>> manager. Thing is I am not sure what to do with it to open it. It says
>> "cannot open as it is an unmountable drive".
>
> Digital cameras are hard to cope with. That's what people tell me and it
> is also something I have learned from experience. They often come with
> Windows drivers and chasing Linux equivalents is a time-burner.
>
I'd have to say, my experience has been the opposite. Then one can be
unlucky...
> When I bind my digi/webcam for Ubuntu to have it recognised, it comes up
> with a prompt that wishes to export the images. However, it cannot inter-
> pret the filesystem, which apparently does not conform with anything Ubun-
> tu has awareness of. Having said that, I had better luck communicating
> with that same camera and fetching photos when I tried Mandrake 9.2. It
> wasn't a good enough distro though, not when compared with what else is
> out there nowadays.
To the OP:
Forget the GUI - lets get to basics... Here are some things to try (as
root)
Google claims this camera presents as a USB mass storage device...
1) modprobe usb_storage
2) lsmod | grep storage # to prove it's there
3) Plug camera in
4) lsusb # A few seconds later, give it a moment to settle
4a Do you see your camera listed above?
5) Good: Now type "dmesg"
5a) Look at the last 20 odd lines, does it mention something like this:
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Model: USB MP3 Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdd: 126976 512-byte hdwr sectors (65 MB)
sdd: Write Protect is off
sdd: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdd: 126976 512-byte hdwr sectors (65 MB)
sdd: Write Protect is off
sdd: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
sdd: sdd1
Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
6) Find out what it called the disk (sdd above, but could be sda, sdb, sdc
etc) - Careful, sda might be your system disk if it's SCSI or SATA(!)
7) mkdir /mnt/camera
8) mount -oro /dev/sdd /mnt/camera
^^^
^^^ Change this bit to be the correct drive mentioned in dmesg, you may
need /dev/sdd1 sdd2 or sdd3 if the camera presents a partiton rather that
the whole device.
9) When you get a mount that works, look in /mnt/camera/ for pictures.
Can you copy them somewhere else, check them etc.
If you can get to 9 successfully, then it's time to investigate the GUI,
otherwise as least the fault is going to be easier to diagnose...
> If you have another Linux box somewhere (e.g. at work), see if it
is
> more kind to your camera. Also try some Web searches. It sounds as if
> you have a common model, unlike my cheap, merely unbranded camera that
> comes from an obscure Chinese manufacturer.
>
> Roy
Good idea, I've also found distributions vary wildly in how well setup
they are out of the box :)
(OP) HTH
Tim
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