Digital cameras and usb support

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

MHeinrich at genencor.com wrote:
> I am trying to get my Mandrake 9.1 to see my Kodak CX 7430 digital camera. 
>  I would like the camera to be hotplugable too (easier for the kids!!). 
> I've looked at the Mandrake users forum for some help.  There was a page 
> that suggested that I recompile the kernel to include these abilities. I'd 
> rather not do this if I don't have to.  Can I add the ability for usb 
> support through modules?  The page also mentioned that I need to have scsi 
> support as the kernel will see the camera as a scsi hard drive.  If I can 
> do this through modules which modules do I need to add?  I am assuming 
> that I would edit my modules.conf file to have the modules loaded 
> automatically (each reboot).  The modules that are related to usb and scsi 
> that come up after lsmod are:
> 
> usb-ohci, usbcore, scsi_mod

This shows that all things you need are already in your kernel, so no 
recompile should be necessary.

Cameras in Linux usually are handled by gphoto2 which probably is 
installed on your Mandrake system too. There's a nice faq page:
http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/FAQ.html
hth Klaus