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(01 May 2005,
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The Minolta Dimage S304 is a nice digital camera. It takes very crisp pictures and has a movie mode which can take 60-second movies. The only problem I have with it is that it does a piss-poor job telling you if the batteries are low. In a nutshell, it gives you no warning at all so I've been stuck twice now with a dead camera. The camera comes with Windows software which seems to work OK but I like to use GNU/Linux so I'm trying to get it to work with that OS. The S304 uses USB to connect to the PC so the first thing I need to do is get the kernel USB driver working. http://edelweiss.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1010 indicates that it should work - and the 2.4.18 kernel already has the code that it needs. gphoto seems to be the default GNOME camera management software. When I connect the camera's USB connector I get this in =/var/log/messages=: <pre> May 1 11:13:16 dickless kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 May 1 11:13:16 dickless kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 1 11:13:16 dickless kernel: Vendor: MINOLTA Model: DIMAGE CAMERA Rev: 1.00 May 1 11:13:16 dickless kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 May 1 11:13:16 dickless kernel: SCSI device sda: 125152 512-byte hdwr sectors (64 MB) May 1 11:13:16 dickless kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled May 1 11:13:16 dickless kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:<7>usb-storage: queuecommand called May 1 11:13:16 dickless kernel: p1 May 1 11:13:17 dickless scsi.agent[2348]: sd_mod: loaded sucessfully (for disk) May 1 11:13:17 dickless kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 May 1 11:13:17 dickless usb.agent[2367]: usb-storage: already loaded May 1 11:13:21 dickless gconfd (tobyc-2260): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/tobyc/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 0 May 1 11:13:42 dickless kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. </pre> At that point I need to mount the camera file system by hand like so: <pre> tobyc@dickless:~$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera/ </pre> ... and I can copy the pictures from the camera.
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