This hardware works...

[Tony Alfrey]

On Tuesday 04 June 2002 04:34 pm,Jerry McBride wrote:
> I just bought myself a SONY CYBERSHOT PSC-31 digital camera for work
> use. It sports a 2meg ccd,USB interface and uses SONY's proprietary
> memory stick for
> storage.
>
> Although there's no definitive blessing of this unit working with
> linux, it does indeed work quite well. All you do is load the usb
> drivers, sd_mod, read the output from dmesg and mount the "discoverd"
> scsi drive as a VFAT partition. Once mounted, I was able to browse
> the pictures with Konqueror.
>
> The PSC-31 was onsale as a special for $150.00. You can probably find
> similar deals in your locale.
>
> Cheers.

I think this is the general hassle-free approach to digital cameras.  
Forget the gphoto stuff;  mount the device instead.  In my case, I 
needed a smart card reader, but the end result on my Canon was the same 
as you describe on your Sony.

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Tony Alfrey
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