Hi all. Debian Sarge with about half Sid packages, including KDE 3.5. Kernel 2.6.14 (it's about time I put this info in my profile I think!). IBM A31 Thinkpad.
Anyway, I can connect a digital camera to my computer, and it pops right up on the desktop, which is totally cool, but when I click to open it, it's empty! Even when i know I have pictures on there. Any ideas why? Happened with two cameras so far. I have a third camera but don't have a driver for it.

Are the pictures stored in the camera or on a SD/MMC card or similar?
I Cannot access pics from my camera's internal memory(all 16 megs) but i can from the smart-card.
Maybe you can move the pictures to the memory card if this is the case?

One camera has a CompactFlash card, the other a SD card. Both have pictures stored on the card itself, and in fact, the one camera doesn't have any internal memory at all.

I tried mounting sda0 or sda1 which some people recommended, but those devices don't exist.

I also have never been able to access my USB hard drive, if that would give someone any clues. But it's NTFS so I partially blamed it on that. Are there modules I need to load?

Did you add yourself to the 'camera' group?

If not you can do it by issuing this command (as root)
Then logout and back in.


Maybe.

Okay, I used KDE's user manager to put me in the camera group. I think we're getting somewhere! I logged myself out, then back in again. Plugged in the camera, opened it up, and saw a folder entitled "Kodak DX3900", clicked on that, saw another link with the same name, clicked on that, then hit another dead end:

"An error occurred while loading system:/media/camera/camera/camera:
Unknown error
Bad parameters"

This is using Konqueror. There has got to be something I'm missing, right?

Ok,

Plugin your camera, and run this from a terminal:
Now take a look at your cameras mountpoint.

Then add this line to your /etc/fstab

/etc/fstab "/dev/yourmountpoint /media/usbcamera vfat rw,users,noauto 0 0"

Unplug your camera, reboot.

Now plug it in, and see what happens.

The reboot is not necessary you would be able to mount the camera once the entry is in the /etc/fstab. Also you would have wanted to do mkdir /media/usbcamera I doubt that would already exist on the system at least not on mine anyways.

I don't know, I feel dumb, but this is the only thing I get out of dmesg:
"usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2"

Just that one line, and that's it, when I turn the camera on. I notice there is a new kernel out (2.6.15.something), perhaps I should download and install the kernel image and see if it works then? I get this feeling I'm missing a module or something. Just because I compiled my own custom kernel and changed a bunch of stuff. Perhaps I should go back to the default Debian kernel and get a new version while I'm at it.

Well I installed a new kernel, headers, and source. Apparently that didn't solve the problem, as it still doesn't show me what device my camera is.

RodWC check out this page http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unic...ian-sarge.html The author covers usb camera install config on sarge and etch along with other goodies. Enjoy.

I had the same problem funny thing though is when i use f-spot it can grab the pictures from the camera.

apt-cache policy hal;apt-cache policy udev;apt-cache policy hotplug show? If you have mainly sarge/etch or sarge/sid system probably hotplug is not being used since hal and udev replace it. So your camera config may be affected by that hal/udev. you may need to purge hotplug if you have hal/udev.
Users more knowledgeable with hal/udev can give better help if LQ wikis or LQ tutorials dont cover your needs. Good luck.