camera not recognised
Sridhar M.A.
mas at mylug.org
Mon Sep 24 03:36:54 UTC 2007
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 10:12:58PM -0500, sktsee wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 21:50 +0100, norman wrote:
> > I recently acquired an Olympus SP 500 UZ camera and, to my horror, it is
> > not recognised by Ubuntu 7.04. Can any one please suggest how this
> > difficulty may be overcome without telling me to get a different
> > camera.
>
> You'll need to upgrade your version of libgphoto2 to version 2.4.0.
> Unfortunately, there's no official feisty backport of this library
> available. However, one of the commenters in the following bug report
> has created an unofficial backport for feisty. It can be found here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/feisty-backports/+bug/110065/comments/10
>
> Standard caution against downloading and installing applications from
> untrusted sources applies here.
>
> Of course, there's always the options of compiling and installing
> libgphoto2 2.4.0 yourself, or just waiting and upgrading to gutsy when
> it's released.
>
I feel getting a card reader is the best option.
Regards,
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