Subject: Re: seeking wisdom about digital cameras
From: andu (undo@cloud9.net)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 23:42:55 MDT
Andy Hocker wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a first-generation iBook and I'd like to use the
> USB port (the only thing it's got) to talk to a digital
> camera. So I installed gPhoto and gave that a go, but it
> didn't work. Of course I'll bring this up in the gphoto
> mailing lists, but I thought I'd also ask you fine people if you
> had any experience in the camera/USB arena. Like for
> example, I'm wondering if it's just completely hopeless
> without a 2.4 kernel (I'm currently running 2.2.18pre21).
> Basically, if you've ever USB'd a digital camera, I'd
> be really interested in how you went about doing it.
Don't remember exactly but I think I have usb devfs, usb storage and
scsi emulation in the kernel. This is with 2.4.x on Slackware and never
tried it on YDL but if you have those options in 2.2.18 you should have
no problem.
I simply mount the camera as /dev/scd1 and get my images.
>
> Maximum love,
> Andy
>
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Andu
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