* Andrey Kartashov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-03 11:03:05 -0500]: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 08:00:42PM -0500, Bill Witherspoon wrote: > > > No dice on any of the suggestions. I'm going to post some debug output > > to the gphoto list and see if it twigs anything. > > Here is my story: > > I also have a Canon camera and tried to use it with gphoto2. An older one worked > with some limitations, a newer one didn't work at all. > AFAIK the trouble with gphoto2 is that most manufacturers don't release any > documentation whatsoever to the OSS developers. Therefore the stupid proprietary > protocols are reverse-engineered by gphoto folks. Which means that if you aren't > a developer and non of the gphoto developers own the same model of the camera that > you do, you are out of luck. > I didn't try to reverse-engineer mine because I felt it was a waste of time. > Instead I spent $15 on a simple USB CF card reader and I'm extremely happy with it. > I didn't have to do anything to set it up, hotplug found it. > > $cdrecord -scanbus > identified the device and it was a simple matter of mounting /dev/sdX to my mount > point. If system has no other devices sdX becomes sda1. > > > -- > - Andrey
Thanks Andrey, I'll probably give that a try. I haven't received any replies from the gphoto list, so I'm going to assume that a card reader is the best option at this point. Bill. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
