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Re: [SLE] digital camera & linux woes
- From: Derek Fountain <derekfountain@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:48:59 +0000
- Message-id: <200301080748.59841.derekfountain@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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 to an outdated version of gphoto.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
The G2 is basically the same as my S40, only inside a different case. SuSE8.1
should drive it out of the box. All I do is connect up the USB cable, open a
shell and type
gphoto2 -P
That pulls all the images off the camera and drops them in the current
directory.
In my experience, manipulating the images as files on a computer is much
easier and quicker than messing about with remote pusedo-disks, thumbnails
generated from the flash, and other things. As long as the above works,
others will be able to help with user interfaces and things like that. Me, I
just get the images off the camera onto my hard disk, and use KDE, et al,
from there.
--
Microsoft Palladium: "Where the hell do you thing YOU'RE going today?"
> > 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
The G2 is basically the same as my S40, only inside a different case. SuSE8.1
should drive it out of the box. All I do is connect up the USB cable, open a
shell and type
gphoto2 -P
That pulls all the images off the camera and drops them in the current
directory.
In my experience, manipulating the images as files on a computer is much
easier and quicker than messing about with remote pusedo-disks, thumbnails
generated from the flash, and other things. As long as the above works,
others will be able to help with user interfaces and things like that. Me, I
just get the images off the camera onto my hard disk, and use KDE, et al,
from there.
--
Microsoft Palladium: "Where the hell do you thing YOU'RE going today?"
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