Accessing USB camera on Ubuntu without gdm running

Ubuntu Gutsy.
Plain-jane Fujifilm camera

If gnome is running, I can just plug the camera in, turn it on, & a disk shows up on the desktop that I can navigate just like a folder.

My problem is I always have gdm stopped, using SSH/FTP to deal with the box. So starting gdm just to grab the photos from my camera is a bit of a hassle.

I tried mounting a device identified as a Fuji device awhile back without success & gave up for the time being.

Before I get into it again I figure I should ask if anyone has any pointers for getting photos off of a USB camera, sort of manually I guess.

gnome-mount is actually the portion of gnome that mounts media on the fly. you might man gnome-mount to find out what commands (if any) you could execute to have it mount the device for you. when you were trying to mount it "manually" previously, do you recall if the device showed up via fdisk -l ?
if you could plug the camera in and give the output of sudo fdisk -l (thats a lowercase L :]) we should be able to get it mounted manually, at which point you could cd through the folders and cp whatever you need ^_^

Aha ! Thankyou AnarchY.

I was looking through the /dev directory when I tried this before.
"fdisk -l" told me exactly what I needed to know.

The following did the trick once I knew which device it was.


Now that I can handle updates and my camera without starting VNC/GDM I can't think of a reason to start gdm anymore.

np, lol

looks good to me ^_^ good job