[plug] Canon PowerShot camera + Linux

[ryan at is.as.geeky.as]

It might use the PTP format like my Kodak, in which case use jphoto, you
can even read my dodgy howto here:

http://slowest.net/docs/reference/kodak.html

HTH,

Ryan

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 09:27, Denis Brown wrote:
> Dear Pluggers...
> 
> Canon PowerShot A200 camera connects happily to a GNU/Debian Woody system,
> is seen as a USB device.  gtkam however does not list this particular
> camera in its supported devices, neither does it appear in gphoto2
> --list-cameras.   gphoto2 is version 2.1.something off the Knoppix distro
> CD and I have not had a chance yet to update anything.
> 
> Grabbing gphoto2 sources onto another machine showed that the A200 was
> absent from the Canon source files :-(   None the less it is reported as
> being supported when reading the gphoto website!   Selecting the lsted
> Canon cameras in gtkam one at a time gives identical results... cannot
> initialise camera.
> 
> Canon tech support "do not support Linux" so no help from that quarter.
> Before delving into to 0.4 release of gphoto (in case it was supported
> back then and hasn't been ported to the 2.x series) I thought I'd ask
> here, if anyone has had joy in getting one of these cameras to work.  It
> might easily be something silly that I'm doing / not-doing that gives rise
> to this problem :-)
> 
> At this time I do not have any other USB devices that I can use to check
> the USB port or cabling but I suspect the hardware is okay because the
> camera is shown correctly (identification string) in the list of connected
> USB devices -- only one in this instance.   And it goes away / shows up
> when camera power is cycled.
> 
> If there is something better / more camera-aware than gtkam, I'd be happy
> to know.  All I want to do in the short term is grab some images from the
> camera.   Loading Win98 or higher is not an option, needless to say!! 
> 
> 
> Cheers and TIA,
> Denis
> 
>