Problem with libgphoto2, Canon Ixus v2 (USB) and 5.3-STABLE

[Ramiro Aceves]

Chris Hill wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Roland Smith wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:48:16PM +0100, Olivier Certner wrote:
>>
>>>     I've tried to download a few pics from my Canon Ixus v2 camera with
>>> libgphoto2 (frontends: kamera and gphoto2) without success. The 
>>> camera is
>>> supported though, I even used libgphoto2 successfully on a Linux 
>>> system with
>>> an older version of the lib (which I don't remember!).
>>
>>
>> In dealing with digital cameras, I've always found it easier to try and
>> mount them as a USB drive (via umass / da), which a lot of them
>> support. If you hook up the camera, is there any mention of a umass
>> device in dmesg? If so you can just mount it as a harddisk.
> 

Thanks.

As far as I know, my Canons D-30 and A80 do not work as umass storage 
devices, so I need gphoto2 software in order to get the pictures :-(

Ramiro.