On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 08:50:51AM -0500, stuart wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure what to expect here. I grabbed the source and dependencies > to compile entangle on a Ubuntu system. I ended up having to make > at least 1 symbolic link to get things to configure/compile. That > done I connected a Canon A80 and nothing happened.
What do you mean by 'nothing happened' & what exactly did you do with entangle ? Did the USB device appear to 'lsusb' command line tool ? Did gphoto2 --auto-detect show anything ? if you do 'FIle -> Connect Camera' display any cameras when yours is connected ? > > But, I'll have to add that a "tail -f /var/log/syslog" showed no > activity either when connecting and disconnecting the A80's USB > port. > > Next I installed the entangle Fedora package on a Fedora 18 box. > Same thing. So I tried a Canon A530. Same thing. > > Is there something about Canon's and Linux that just don't mix? How > odd is that. The A80 is supported by libgphoto2. The A530 is not supported by any sofware, since Canon intentionally cripple the firmware http://www.gphoto.org/doc/remote/ Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ Entangle-devel mailing list Entangle-devel@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/entangle-devel