Cannot connect G-Shot D5123 to Slack 12
 

Hi all,
Well being as it's the festive season i decided to treat myself to a digital camera, nothing flash just a plain "Genius G-Shot D5123".

The problem is i cant connect it to Slackware 12, iv'e installed digikam and it's not listed in the supported camers section, i had hoped it might be recognized as a usb mass storage device of some sort but no joy :(

Has anyone got one of these working under linux? is there anything i can do?

Any help and i mean ANY HELP!!!! would be appreciated!

Thanks

The-Yikes

Have you tried the program gphoto?
www.gphoto.org
Although this G-Shot D5123 is not among the models they explicitly
claim to support, there still a chance that it will work.

Yeah, try gphoto as mastemmer says. Unfortunately, the Genius company line is not too well supported under Linux. For example, my mouse is a 9 button Genius laser mouse, but only 5 buttons are seen by evdev. xev shows no activity when pressing the 4 extra buttons. Also, there seems to be nothing on the net related to Genius and their level of compatibility with Linux, AFAIK.

Info center reports Syntek usb camera
 

Hi all,
Well i just took a look in the info center and the camera seems to be rcognized as a Syntek USB Camera. Still having trouble finding support for either though!

Oh well i'll stick with it!

Cheers

The- Yikes

Does it list a model number or anything ? The only syntek webcam driver I've found is:
http://syntekdriver.sourceforge.net/

Is that the one ? I may not be.