Sony video camera

[efbe]

Iv'e installed Linux Mint 9 on a friends pc and he loves it apart from Mint will not recognize his Sony video camera through a usb port, everything else through that usb port is ok but not the Video camera..it worked ok in Widows XP...
Any ideas anyone?
Model..Sony, CCD-TRV44E Video camera

Ps..i'm still a noob with Linux, so go easy..
Cheers.

[caf4926]

it worked ok in Widows XP...

'It doesn't work' is not very informative.

Does anything happen?
Without Googling around most of us have no idea what this camera is like. Eg; Is the storage removable? Like SD card? Or perhaps a on board HD?

[efbe]

Thank you for a reply.
Sorry, but all i know is that Mint wont detect the video camera when plugged in through a usb port...nothing happens at all, tried other usb ports, turned the camera off / on / whilst plugged in. . nothing happens. He has a small cassette tape type thingy in the camera, he wants to install what he recorded to his hard drive. ( I know very little about video cameras).
Cheers.

[caf4926]

It's an old video8 camera then.
I suspect you will get little joy with it. I know serious Linux users who can't get hardware that will work with Linux or have some hardware to that effect, as a work around, will use XP in Virtual Box.
In case you don't know, with this you can actually run XP inside Linux.

[Fafler]

What software have you tried to use with the camera? What exact model do you have?

Open a terminal and type

tail -f /var/log/messages

Now, connect the camera and post whatever is output at the terminal.
Also do a

lsusb

And post the results.

[efbe]

Thank you for your help Fafla and caf4926... iv'e installed the latest virtualbox and then installed XP within, and the video camera still wasn't recognized with the usb ports but a bit of googling research fixed that.
Thank you again, case solved

[caf4926]

Happy to hear things worked out