Mounting a USB Web Camera

Laurence Laurence.Orchard at tesco.net
Sun Feb 13 18:15:51 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 00:40 -0500, Johnathan Bailes wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 23:40:32 -0500, Chet Ranaweera
> <ckranaweera at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a USB web camera. Does anybody know how to mount it?
> > 
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> 
> Got to love udev and all the new stuff man.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Because you should NOT have to mount it.
> 
> Sit back at your desktop and plug in your camera and wait about 5 to
> 10 seconds and it should mount up as a usb storage device and gthumb
> will pop up and even ask if you want to Import your pictures.
> 
> Btw, I said yes and damn thing just launched ghtumb but did not pull
> the pictures off the camera to my Pictures directory.  But it was
> pretty easy to Select All and drag them off into the Pictures folder.
> 

Don't think it quite works that was for a WEB cam!




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