First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 07 March 2003 10:53 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:16:27 -0500
>
> Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 07 March 2003 8:10 am, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > > Joel Hammer wrote:
> > > > I tried the software junior shelf. Only a few titles. Prowrite
> > > > is koffice's word processor, which loaded no problem. (version
> > > > 1.1.1). Digikam loaded fine but didn't support my nikon coolpic
> > > > 2500. Luckily, cdrecord is on this thing, so I could see my
> > > > camera and just loaded it manually with:
> >
> > Have you used digikam before??   Although it doesn't support the
> > 2500 (by name) it should easily support a USB mass-storage camera. 
> > See the bottom of the camera list.
>
> It is not digikam that does not support a camera, it is gphoto2. If
> gphoto2 supports it and you tell digikam where gphoto2 is, it will use
> it.

That's fine...  but since a USB mass-storage camera is really supported 
by the kernel, then it's really not gphoto2's problem either.

In any case, unless the kernel they use is very 'early' in the 2.4.x 
series (or is borken), the camera can be supported in many ways, with or 
without gphoto2.

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         03/07/03 
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