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 I'm very disappointed with the suse help knowledge base as all it does is send me to an outdated version of gphoto.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. -- Thanks, Andrew McCall Internet/Linux System Administrator I.C.T. Division Oldham MBC Civic Centre West Street Oldham OL1 1UU Tel : 0161 911 3990 Fax : 0161 911 3998 Email : it.andrew.mccall@oldham.gov.uk ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.oldham.gov.uk **********************************************************************