Re: [Gphoto-user] gphoto2 and Canon Powershot G5

[Marcus M. <ma...@je...>]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:33:02PM +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just built ghoto2 (2.1.4) for my system (Redhat 9), but can't get it
> to talk to my Canon G5 despite the camera being listed as supported (at
> http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php) in PTP mode.
> 
> Running 'gphoto2 --auto-detect' gives me:
> 
>   Model                          Port
>   ----------------------------------------------------------
>   USB PTP Class Camera           usb:
> 
> which seems to suggest it's finding the camera. Whether the fact it just
> says 'usb:' and doesn't tell me which usb connector it uses is a problem
> or not I don't know - maybe that's normal. 
> 
> But now, running 'gphoto2 --summary' as given in the docs gives:
> 
>   *** Error ***
>   This camera does not support summaries.
>   *** Error ('Unsupported operation') ***
> 
> So something is wrong somewhere. Am I missing some setup step, possibly
> to do specifically with PTP operation?

Just summary will not work.

The rest will.

You should also upgrade libgphoto2 instead of gphoto2, libgphoto2 contains the 
drivers. Check with gphoto2 --version.

Ciao, Marcus