Is there a list of supported digital cameras that work with Mandriva 2005LE?

navigate to: menu>multimedia>graphics>digikam

in digikam, select >camera>add camera>cameras>add...........you now see a huge list of supported cameras in the add manually list instead of auto detect

Thanks.

Lakota, ( or anyone else for that matter) I tried what you suggest, but there is no menu under camera. Just a blank. Does this mean I haven't installed Digikam properly or configured it or something? I also downloaded and installed updates for digikam two days ago. I am a techno-idiot, so please explain as if to a five year old. Make that four.

And in fact, anyone who knows FOR SURE that their basic idiot-proof point-and-shoot digital camera works with this software, please let me know make and model!

I am not going to put out any money for a camera until I know that the software supports it. I tried contacting Canon and Kodak, but no luck--they just say their cameras only work in Windows or Mac which I know is blatantly false.

I also have two versions of gphoto2--one called flphoto and the other GTcam, not to mention gphoto the earlier version. I can't find a list of supported cameras in any of those, either.

Thanks.

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camera>add camera, menu on left.

FYI: most all cameras work with linux, but I find it is easiest in any operating system to not even bother using the camera. I have a Kodak DX 4330. I know it is supported but for ease I simply pull my sd memory card and stick it in my JumpDrive Trio (any card reader will do) stick it in the usb port on pc and use a file browser (my fav is Krusader) to simply drag and drop or copy to my hard drive. If you don't have a card reader, attaching camera works fine, and digikam is much simpler than most proprietary software for camera's in Windows.

I suppose more to the point, digikam does not have any drivers included, it makes use of the drivers in gphoto2. Here is the list of the camera's currently supported:
http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php

My rule of thumb is if it will connect to windows as a "mass storage device", I feel sure it will work in linux, I buy only mp3 players that work this way as I can manipulate it with a simple file browser then.

Thanks, raysr, but still no dice. I get dropdown menus for everything else--view, image, even help, but not camera. Just ain't there. Maybe because no camera has ever been hooked up? Maybe because I have no idea what I'm doing? Maybe because its really hot and the program has gone to the beach? I'm not going to worry about it now, though, as Lakota's list has saved the day.

Thanks, Lakota! I'm printing this puppy out and taking it to the store. Very helpful.

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