Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3959 mails)

[Andrew McCall <it.andrew.mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 04:56:16PM -0800, Rick Reumann wrote:
>
> > I'd love to get my Canon G2 working with Linux. I'm yet to find a simple
> > dummies guide to "Here are the first things to do to using your digital
> > camera under linux." (I'm using suse 8.1, Kde 3.0.5). I'm very
> > disappointed with the suse help knowledge base as all it does is send me
> > to an outdated version of gphoto. I went and installed the latest
> > libgphoto2 but don't know if that did anything that I need. I then saw
> > that I should probably get kio_kamera for KDE, and it seems like I
> > should have that already installed yet I can't find "kamera" anywhere
> > yet when I search through my YaST I see that I do have a checkbox next
> > to kdegraphics3-camera so I'm assuming somewhere I have that program yet
> > I don't see it in any of my menus. I have a very difficult time in Linux
> > figuring out what and where I have things installed (i find this aspect
> > much easier in Windows). I do notice that if plug the camera in the USB
> > port and turn it on I can go to control panel - hardware - digital
> > cameras and my camera is listed there. Oddly it isn't until I right
> > click on my camera icon does the lcd on my camera switch to "PC" which
> > it supposedly needs to do to recognize that it's connected. Basically
> > I'm needing some help on what I need to install and what I need to do so
> > that I can pull pictures of my camera. I have searched around google but
> > I seem to get conflicting information as to what I need to do and some
> > of the stuff I try to do doesn't even work. Like this site for instance
> > says
>
>
> If you plug the camera in, an icon should appear on the desktop.
>
> Otherwise open in konqueror the URL "camera:/" (with kdegraphics3-kamera RPM
> installed).
>
> Or on the commandline try "gphoto2 --auto-detect -L" to list available images.
> (needs gphoto RPM installed).
>
> Ciao, Marcus

An alternative way is to purchase a Compact Flash or Smart Card USB 
reader, you will then be able to mount your card as a normal hard disk.

I had my Kodak DC215 working fine with gPhoto, but as I have a 256MB 
card and the camera only has a serial port on it, it took a long long 
long time to transfer all images from the camera.

I got one of the card readers, Linux sees it as a SCSI drive, so I 
simply mount it as a SCSI drive with :

mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash

Pictures are transfered of pretty darn fast now too!

Just a suggestion.

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Thanks,

Andrew McCall
Internet/Linux System Administrator
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Oldham MBC
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Email : it.andrew.mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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