digital camera Q

[H.S.]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> A neighbor came up tonight with a canon powershot A10 in hand that had some 
> pix my missus wanted.  For my own camera, its a vfat file system and all I 
> have to do is mount it, but this camera seems to have a different 
> mechanism.  When I couldn't mount it, I tried digicam-0.6.2 which seemed 
> to recognize the camera, but could not initialize it.  Then I tried gtkam, 
> which also says the same thing.  That left XCam, which seemed to be a 
> differently built program for video streams.
> 
> Looking up the specs, it claims to be DPOF compliant, whatever that 
> defines.
> 
> Is there a special driver I need to turn on in the kernel's usb section to 
> enable access to this device?  I am familiar with building kernels, 
> currently running 2.6.19-rc3.
> 

When you connect that camera, what does dmesg tell you about it? Or what 
are the last lines in /var/log/messages about the plugging in event?

->HS