[Gphoto-user] slow camera initialization on Canon 350D

[Paul M. <pa...@sa...>]

I just grabbed current libgphoto2 CVS and found that it supports the
Canon 350D, which I appreciate since I recently bought one.  I have a
1G compact flash card in it (SanDisk Ultra II), which has about 430MB
on it.  The USB port I connect the camera to has an EHCI controller
and the kernel sees it as a high-speed USB device.  This is on a G5
powermac running a 2.6.12-rc2 linux kernel.

With current CVS, gphoto2 sees the camera correctly and is able to
download stuff from it.  However, there is one problem: any gphoto2
command that I execute that does anything with any file sits there for
about 10 - 15 seconds with the message "Initializing camera" and a
progress bar.  Why does this take so long?  Is there any way to speed
it up?

Thanks,
Paul.