I recently bought an Optio S digital still camera, very compact, very nice but unfortunately it does not seem to be supported under Linux. Apparently, drivers are available online for both Windows and Mac but not Linux.
Under debian the gtkam application does not recognize the camera, so one needs to mount the camera manually as an USB mass storage device.
To that end, one needs to add the cameras usb id to the "driver/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h" header file in the kernel source. In my case (kernel version 2.4.20) I needed to add the following
UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x0a17, 0x0006, 0x0000, 0xffff,
"Pentax",
"Optio S",
US_SC_8070, US_PR_CB, NULL, US_FL_MODE_XLATE|US_FL_FIX_INQUIRY),
After you have done that , you will need to recompile the kernel as normal and mount the camera (/dev/sda1)
Posted by michaelm at February 26, 2004 08:11 AM | TrackBack