Digital Cameras

In the current Freek Boxen based on Ubuntu Dapper, digital cameras mostly just work. Plug the camera into the USB port (if you have the cable) and a message will pop up saying something like "Camera detected. Do you want to import your pictures" The program being brought up is gphoto, which can also be accessed through the Applications>Graphics menu. There are still some cameras which are unsupported, so this may not work with your particular model.

For cameras that are not detected or cannot be mounted, it still may be possible to use a USB card reader. Again, it should be automatically detected and mounted.

In the older freekboxen based on Debian Sarge and KDE, it is not so easy. Try the following options:

Again connect the camera to the computer with USB and use the following command (as root):

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt -o gid=floppy,umask=002 

Followed by opening up /mnt in a browser such as konqueror or firefox. Remember to use:

umount /mnt 

when you are done.

Others require that special software be installed (gphoto2 and gtkam)

apt-get update 
apt-get install gphoto2 gtkam 

Still others do not work at all because they have a proprietary interface that works only with windows.