RE: [Sheflug] Digital Cameras and USB.

["richard davies" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The last 2 issues of Linux format had some quite good information on USB and getting digital cameras to work under Linux. Hope this helps.
 
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 17:35:09    Neil R Porter wrote:
>Don't know about the drivers, but with regards to getting usb off the
>mobo and onto the back, just get your mobo manual and find out where the
>usb pins are.  Then, buy a usb socket set from your local comp shop
>(basically just a couple of usb sockets with cables off to plug into
>your mobo) and stick it into a spare slot space on the back of your
>comp.  I did this a while ago with an older computer of mine that had a
>usb capable mobo but didn't have the sockets attached.  It works fine.
>As I say though, as for the drivers and which camera etc, I don't
>know... Although I recall that the LinuxFormat mag had a review recently
>(if not the current issue!), maybe check that out?
>
>Goog luck
>
>Neil
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk 
>> [mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk] On Behalf Of 
>> Richard Fletcher
>> Sent: 09 December 2001 17:09
>> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
>> Subject: [Sheflug] Digital Cameras and USB.
>> 
>> 
>> Hello,
>> Its my 21st soon and my mum has offered to get me a digital 
>> camera. But I 
>> have my concerns over the transfer of images from it to my 
>> PC. Since I dont 
>> run windows whatsoever I need to know it will work with 
>> Linux. Im assuming 
>> there is software out there to cope with the transfer but I 
>> also have the 
>> problem of the actual connection.
>> 
>> Im sure that my motherboard supports USB as there is an 
>> option in the BIOS to 
>> disable it, but I have no plug at the back which could 
>> possibly be USB, 
>> although I admit I have no idea what a USB plug looks like. 
>> Now assuming that 
>> all digital camera's use USB I could be a bit stuck, and may 
>> well have to ask 
>> for something else instead.
>> 
>> So should I invest in some kind of plug and attatch it to part of the 
>> motherboard, or are there cameras out there which are quite 
>> happy to use the 
>> parallel port, or should I give up altogether because there's 
>> no software out 
>> there which could possibly help?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Richard Fletcher, Sheffield, UK.
>> "Those who shun unix are forced to reinvent it." 
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