Over Christmas I had a major breakthru with my Coolpix 990. It is also a USB device that does NOT provide a 'disk' interface (you cannot mount it). It is based on the Sierra chipset, as are a number of other cameras. It is supported by the gphoto2 library, but not by any user-level apps.
Then I came across digikam (http://digikam.sourceforge.net). It actually works! It requires KDE 3. (An older version supports KDE2, but I have not tried it). Of course, if you have KDE3, did you try konqueror with the URL camera:/ If your camera is connected, you will get a menu in the KDE Control Center that you can configure. Then, the camera:/ URL should work. It also uses the gphoto2 library. However, it seems much slower at getting thumbnails than digikam. The only problem I have had is that the USB devices are created without read/write access for non-root users. That is more a general USB thing I need to sort out than anything specific to cameras. Until I sort it out, I need to change the permissions in the /proc/bus/usb/devices directory. (All this worked because I installed Gentoo at home. I had previously been using Caldera 3.1.1, but it was a pain to update on a regular basis - especially KDE.) On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:00:12 -0500 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I went out and bought a digital camera, Nikon Coolpix 2500. They didn't > have a card reader at BestBuy. The camera is designed to hook up to a USB > port. Does anyone know if there is a linux app that supports this camera? > > Joel > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- +····························+·······························+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 · Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · +····························+·······························+ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
