Thu, 26 Jan 2006
Using the Kodak EasyShare C360 with Debian
I got this camera for christmas. It's a
Kodak EasyShare C360. At first glance
I was estatic because it has very good specs, is small and has a real zoom
lens. Then I opened the box and saw all the Windows driver installation
instructions. I got freaked out because I was used to a digital camera being
nothing more than a USB mass storage device. After a few hours of reading I
discovered Kodak invented the
PTP
protocol, which this camera speaks and the
gphoto2 library can read
data from any device that speaks PTP. Though it was strange that my
camera wasn't listed in the
gphoto2
supported devices. Being scared of the unknown, I installed the gtkam
application from sarge and ran it. It detected the camera and showed me
thumbnails! cool. Then it gave a PTP I/O error and segfaulted. Not cool. I
felt defeated. Nothing online mentioned this camera working with Debian and
no constructuve advice from other distros either.
Then it hit me...gphoto2 is a command line application. Let's skip the GUI. A
little man page reading and I came up with these two commands:
gphoto2 --auto-detect
gphoto2 -P
and all my photos on the camera were downloaded to the current
directory! No probs, I got photos! Stay tuned for the new photo enhanced
version of Uncompatible Systems.
posted at: 22:56 | path:
/debian |
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CARP installation, first notes.
CARP
is failing over correctly on the two Soekris NET4801 boxes running OpenBSD
3.8-stable. Unplugging a cable that belongs to each virtual IP does not stop
pings from responding. I'm going to install pfsync next.
posted at: 15:09 | path: /openbsd | permanent link to this entry
