Fedora desktop experience: Great, but not quite all I need

[duncan brown]

Benjamin J. Weiss said:
>  - Olympus C-750 UltraZoom.  I couldn't get gtkam to initialize the
> camera, no matter what camera I selected.  The autoselect kept finding
> it  as a C-2040Z, which would have been fine if it could have
> initialized the  camera.  I suppose I'd have to use one of those card
> readers, but I don't  know if any of them read Olympus xD cards.  This
> one's a deal-killer for  my wife.  I'll have to dual boot if I can't get
> this one working.

your camera may not be PTP.  plug in your camera and then check out your
/etc/fstab (wiat about 4 seconds)... if there's a /mnt/camera option in
there now, then you're looking at a USB storage device, not a camera that
uses PTP.  you may be able to browse it just like a regular file system.

-d

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