<quote who="Craig Dickson"> > Gphoto2 allegedly supports my Canon PowerShot G2, but I never got > it to work; gphoto2 just insisted the camera wasn't there.
hmm, good to know, i guess the info there isn't too reliable. > Fortunately, I found a better solution anyway. The G2 uses compact > flash (CF) cards for storage, and for $20 or so you can buy a USB > reader for these CF cards. The CF reader looks to Linux like a > removable SCSI drive, so you just put the card in it, mount the > card as a VFAT filesystem, and copy the files off of it. No gphoto > required. Though of course your kernel has to have decent USB > support, so I don't know if a 2.2 kernel would do. > if this is the usb-storage driver it doesn't appear to be in 2.2.x ..so i can't use it.. > Consult Digital Photography Review at http://www.dpreview.com for > expert reviews and user opinions of a wide variety of digital > cameras. > > The PowerShot S300, according to DP Review, uses CF card storage, > so the card reader trick I mentioned above should work if your > system has good USB support. yeah..cept i can't use 2.4.x kernel! too unstable for my needs. thanks for the info! that site dpreview.com has a ton of good info. nate
