--- nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <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 $20 or so > you can buy a USB > > reader for these CF cards. The CF reader looks to > Linux like a > > removable SCSI drive, so you just put the card in > it, mount the > > card as a VFAT filesystem, and copy the files off > of it. No gphoto > > required. Though of course your kernel has to have > decent USB > > support, so I don't know if a 2.2 kernel would do. > > > > if this is the usb-storage driver it doesn't appear > to > be in 2.2.x ..so i can't use it.. > > > > > Consult Digital Photography Review at > http://www.dpreview.com for > > expert reviews and user opinions of a wide variety > of digital > > cameras. > > > > The PowerShot S300, according to DP Review, uses > CF card storage, > > so the card reader trick I mentioned above should > work if your > > system has good USB support. > > yeah..cept i can't use 2.4.x kernel! too unstable > for > my needs. > > <<SNIP>>
Pardon me if this is "hijacking the thread", but why is 2.4.x too unstable? Are you planning on using the digital camera w/ a server under high load? The only problems I've seen w/ 2.4.x occur under extremely high load, a situation that is unlikely to occur on the average desktop machine or laptop. Once I got sid switched over to 2.4.x it has been very nice on my laptop. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date; uname -a; uptime Sat Feb 16 08:05:25 EST 2002 Linux voyager 2.4.17-686 #2 Sat Dec 22 21:58:49 EST 2001 i686 unknown 08:05:25 up 6 days, 8:39, 4 users, load average: 0.06, 0.37, 0.94 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
