[solved] SD Card (digital camera) pictures messed up when mounted

milomouse · 2010-06-01 23:21:13

solved: post #5.

As the title states; whenever I mount my digital camera's sd card the pictures look messed up. An example of how a picture is "messed up" is that the image is in blocks of rearranged portions of the original picture (sort of like a jigsaw puzzle in the wrong order). I use xorg18 repo's xorg-server (but I also used to use xorg-server-udev from the AUR and it did the same thing) and have udev 151-3 (I don't use/have HAL). I'm not much on multimedia and imagery so I'm not sure what other information to give. I just insert the sd card from my camera and mount it. It mounts without any errors and I go to the folder I mounted it at and view the pictures which is when I see they're always messed up looking. I can mount the same card on a "out of the box" Linux Mint computer and they show up fine so I'm guessing I'm just missing a udev rule or perhaps I simply need HAL, I don't know. Any ideas? Thanks for reading

Last edited by milomouse (2010-06-09 19:10:48)

jasonwryan · 2010-06-01 23:44:59

Are the images messed up (ie., if you copy them to your hard drive are they corrupted) or do they just appear that way in the folder preview?

milomouse · 2010-06-01 23:55:19

It would mess up when I copy them to my hard-drive. When I preview them in an image program (I don't have a file browser) they appear messed up as well. I should rephrase my first statement and instead of saying "always" I should say sometimes, because it will mess up <most> of the time but every now and then they appear properly. An example is that they weren't working this morning before I posted this thread but after I got a reply this evening I tried it again and they appear fine. I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the kernel I'm using because [now that I'm thinking about it] I'm using 2.6.34 right now and it's working whereas most of my previous experiences I booted into 2.6.32. Perhaps it's a filesystem module or other that I didn't select before in the kernel config or a bug fix. Hmm. I'm sorry but I'll wait a little while (perhaps tomorrow morning) and try it again to see if I can replicate the results and show a picture of the messed up image (although I'm hoping I unwittingly fixed it). Thanks for the reply.. got me thinking about the chain of events.

jasonwryan · 2010-06-02 00:10:04

I wouldn't rule out a corrupted SD card either (it might be worth backing up everything if you do catch it when it is behaving nicely)...

Good luck!

milomouse · 2010-06-09 19:09:04

Well, this is kind of embarrassing but it continuously works now whereas it almost never worked with my pre-2.6.34 kernels. I've had this problem for about 2 years now and viola!; it's automagically fixed as soon as I ask about it. Oh well. Thanks for your ideas jasonwryan, I'll go ahead and mark this solved as I cannot replicate it anymore.

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#1 2010-06-01 23:21:13

[solved] SD Card (digital camera) pictures messed up when mounted

#2 2010-06-01 23:44:59

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#3 2010-06-01 23:55:19

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#4 2010-06-02 00:10:04

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#5 2010-06-09 19:09:04

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