Canon xt (350D) Ubuntu 8.10

[James Finstrom]

Okay so I decided lets ditch google and look at the change logs. Ubuntu is
sweet because it for the most part just works and allows me to be lazy. Well
their gphoto2 libraries and applications are 3 versions behind which
according to the change log is where they ficed that pesky canon usb reset
issue. Okay so in hopes that this makes it in to the googlesphere the fix
for running a canon 350D xt digital rebel on Ubuntu 8.10 is drumroll.......

build gphoto2 and libgphoto2 from source. I am running 2.4.4 and I have
successfully remote captured an image.

I do alot of software development stuff so I have alot of random libraries
already. To compile however I had to apt-get the following:

libpopt0 libpopt-dev libtool
Also it installs the gphoto2 binaries to /usr/local/bin which may or may not
be in your path.




James Finstrom
Rhino Equipment Corp.


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sadly no
> But ill definitely be watching this thread
>
> On 2/24/09, James Finstrom <jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Okay so something with the geekish community they seem to have 3 hobbies
> > they flock to; Computers, Photography and Ham radio. Today I a, looking
> for
> > Ubuntu users who own a canon Digital Rebel (350D preferred)  I have been
> > googling and have found random nonsense about getting pictures off the
> > camera well that just works for me.  As cool is it is to take the
> pictures
> > then plug in like a normal person I want to play with remote capture and
> > script some stuff out. Anyhow I have gphoto2 and I do `gphoto2 -F1
> > --capture-image` and the shutter actuates and the photo is taken and
> saved
> > on the CF card. The application hangs and no image is transfered back to
> the
> > pc. I could probably live with that as I could script the pictures then
> dump
> > the card but as i said the application hangs so no go. From what I can
> tell
> > it is waiting for a shutter release back from the camera which doesn't
> come.
> > Anyhow anyone have remote capture with Ubuntu 8.10 and the canon 350D
> that
> > cann offer insight?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > James Finstrom
> > Rhino Equipment Corp.
> >
>
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>
> Stephen
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