[Eug-lug] Can't get Mepis 6.5 to talk to an HP Photosmart m305 camera

[larry price]

look into gphoto2 http://www.gphoto.org/

they have lots of documentation on different cameras and will
successfully talk to off-brand cameras that use weird file formats.

On 8/15/07, Allen Brown <abrown at peak.org> 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  abrown at peak.org  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
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