Thanks for your help. I did get gphoto to connect to my camera, and then compiled digikam to sit on top of it. All I was looking for was a way to transfer the files off my camera without any other hardware, and this works.
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Michael Shell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 23:15:05 -0800 > Chris Burel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm confused what I need to do to get my Canon Rebel XSI camera to be >> recognized. > > > According this: > > http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonEOS450D/page34.asp > > and this: > > http://virgo47.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/upgrade-to-canon-eos-450d/ > > The XSi (aka EOS 450D) does not have USB mass storage > support. (I myself would refuse to buy a model that did > not have USM mass storage support or used proprietary > memory cards.) > > The good news is that you can either use a card reader, > or use ghoto which does support the 450D: > > http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/ > > There is a Linux with 450D HOWTO (unfortunately it's in > German) here: > > http://cdann.de/2008/05/01/canon-eos-450d-unter-linux/ > > > Mike > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
