USB usage

[icedtea]

guys just want to ask.. who among of you have successfully used USB in your box? any tips? thanks

[AlexK]

Uh,
what kind of USB peripherials are you talking about?

[spencerf]

basically everything usb works that i've tried

printer
dvd burner
scanner
digital camera
mouse
keyboard
palm pilot

[pajamabama]

I'll add USB audio, and an mp3 player to that list.

What are you trying to get working?

[oz]

basically everything usb works that i've tried

printer
dvd burner
scanner
digital camera
mouse
keyboard
palm pilot

Same here... it all just seems to work.

[icedtea]

hmm ok guys... NOW i want to use my USB to access my digicam... so can u give me some help bout this? thanks

[AlexK]

does your camera appear like a normal storage device in Windows, or do you have to communicate to it through some propiteary program?

If it appears as a normal storage device, just mount it like you would mount any usb device.

[pajamabama]

Check and see if you have gphoto2 and libgphoto2. They allow you to mount a digital camera and have a long list of supported cameras.

check the list here to see if your camera is supported. It probably is, they support hundreds.

Then there are some good frontends for this. If you use KDE, try digikam or kamera. kamera allows you to use konqueror to look at your camera by typing 'camera:/' in the location.

let us know if this helps

[bigtomrodney]

Everything USB I have works except my Webcam. But I don't think it works in windows either. USB Headset, iRiver iHP, iFP, pendrives,bluetooth.... the lot.

See how your device mounts in windows and come back to us.

[icedtea]

hmm ok here is the scenario, i have this SONY digicam and i want a program that will enable my pics to be viewed.. which is better? mine is kde. kamera OR digikam? il be looking for kamera's req (coz i have digikam's req BUT i havent compiled it yet)

here is my list of digikam req's

1.digikam 0.8
2.digikamimageplugins
3.libkipi
4.gphoto2-2.1
5.libexif

do i really need all of this? ?