Re: [Sheflug] Digital Cameras and USB.

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 17:08 09/12/01 +0000, Richard Fletcher wrote:
>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.

WRT hardware, you probably need something called an ATX Form Card which 
plugs on to a header on your mobo and replaces one of the "orbs" (tin plate 
thingies that cover your expansion slots)

Costs about a quid or three.


Steve


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