On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 06:36, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > OK, here we go... I've been to www.gphoto.org and verified that the newest > stable version (2.1.1) will indeed work with my Canon PowerShot S230. > hey i just did this for my new canon s45 basically i updated the libraries and hotplug to recognize my camera, but used the existing version of the gtkam as shipped with redhat if anyone see's a problem with my approach i would love to hear about it i am running rh9 here is how i got my camera to work downloaded the latest libgphoto2 untarred and ran configure like this ./configure --prefix=/usr/local then ran make ============================ never did 'make install' or download anything else ============================== then went into dir libgphoto2-2.1.1/camlibs/canon/.libs copied the file libgphoto2_canon.so to /usr/lib/gphoto2/2.1.0 (first i backed up the old one, just in case) i did the same thing for libgphoto2-2.1.1/camlibs/ptp ( copy the .so file) to get the experimental ptp support now my camera still wasnt recognized by hotplug i got instructions from here http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html what i had to do cd /etc/hotplug gphoto2 --print-usb-usermap > usb.usermap i never had to mess with the /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam file because i am running gtkam in kde now i rehooked my camera up and 'tail -f /var/log/messages' showed hotplug as recognizing it properly it worked for me in normal mode and ptp mode with canon s45 i love my camera it is so much better than my old toshiba 2.1mp camera i had good luck randy
