gphoto2 / USB camera

Stephen Hilton nospam at hiltonbsd.com
Fri May 23 08:57:41 PDT 2003


On Fri, 23 May 2003 17:44:02 +0300
Nimrod Mesika <nimrod-me at bezeqint.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Just got myself a Canon A70 digital camera. The camera connects
> to the USB port and uses the standard PTP (picture transfer
> protocol) to transfer pictures.
> 
> However, it seems like gphoto2 (which supports PTP) on FreeBSD
> crashes repeatedly or gives me some message about unexpected 0x2ff
> message...
> 
> The interface works OK under Windows XP (no need to install any
> camera-specific software. XP supports PTP out of the box).
> 
> I have also tried using libptp2 (latest 1.0-pre1 from sourceforge)
> but to no avail...
> 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nimrod,

Try /usr/ports/graphics/gtkam

It worked for me with my Powershot A40 when Gphoto2 would not.

Regards,

Stephen Hilton
nospam at hiltonbsd.com


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