Canon Powershot a510 linux drivers needed

dmneoblade · 04-10-2005, 06:04 PM

Hello, I am a Linux Newbie running SuSE 9.2 Professional (Which I really like. ^_^).
However, I seem to be unable to connect my new digital camera, a Canon Powershot a510. Does anyone know where I can get some linux drivers for this camera?

asb · 04-11-2005, 02:52 PM

I have the same camera. When I researched it, I found no drivers for it yet. I think the camera is still too new, but that was a month or so ago.

snowtigger · 04-11-2005, 03:27 PM

I may be wrong, but it should just be recognized like a hard drive. Have a look thru the manual and see if it can be setup to act like a USB mass storage device. If it can and you do not have any other usb or scsi hard drive on your system, plug it in and it will probably under /dev/sda. Then just mount it like a normal drive.

To get a better idea of what to do read this http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...era-HOWTO.html

dmneoblade · 04-11-2005, 07:57 PM

Tried that, and it didn't work.
Mabye I should just get a reader...

kencaz · 04-11-2005, 08:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dmneoblade
Tried that, and it didn't work.
Mabye I should just get a reader...

That's a good Idea. I had a nikon digital that insisted on using it's own software to upload images. It did have a Flash-Drive card and I just got a usb FlachCard reader. works great. Plus I can use the FlashCard for files and junk....

KC

westexe · 04-28-2005, 04:30 PM

Works for me.

I've just got a new Canon A510. I'm on Ubuntu x86_64 with a custom-compiled kernel (although I doubt that makes any difference).

I installed gphoto2 and gtkam. From within the gtkam application, I went to the Camera menu-> Add Camera and chose the Detect button. It detected my camera as a USB PTP Class Camera. I can save and browse my pictures with no problem.

I'm running as a normal user.

I have gtkam-0.1.12 and gphoto2 2.1.5.

Hope this helps,

James

dmneoblade · 04-28-2005, 09:08 PM

Actually, I found out why the cam was not working right under linux.
The camera was not working right. After messing with it a bit on another (windows XP only) computer, I discovered that the camera was defective, returned it, and got an HP camera on sale for $20 less, 1 megapixel better resolution, and a 256 meg card.
Its working fine for me.
But, thanks to all of you who posted suggestions on the forum.

kadejo · 05-23-2005, 08:49 AM

Hi!

I've explained how I made it at

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...79#post1653579

Best regards,

k!

SpyCobra · 05-23-2005, 06:31 PM

Just visit http://www.gphoto.org/

I think that it's working properly with gphoto.