Digital camera in Fedora Core 4.

[Josh Coffman]

Since another thread was talking about digital cameras
& linux, I thought I'd share my experience.

This weekend I had my first try at using my digital
cam with linux (Fedora Core 4). I have a Kodal dx6440,
which I access by plugging into USB2. 

First thing I did was to boot my laptop windows
partition to copy and burn the pictures to cd just in
case.

I don't have the kodak software installed so I got the
typical windows USB digital camera interface. It's
rather lame if you ask me, but it worked.

Then I moved one chair over to my desktop with Fedora
Core 4 desktop and plugged it in. FC4 gave me a dialog
that it detected the camera and loaded drivers. Then
it gave me a dialog with thumbnails of the available
pics. I just downloaded pics as easy as in windows
with a dialog that was nicer. 

Neither windows nor the fc4 pic copies were as fast as
using the Kodak program, but adequate. I'm very happy
anyways cause I got what I wanted in FC4 without any
special tweaking or installs.

-j


	
		
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