[Gllug] Canon PowerShot S50

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst Richard Turner announce to the hordes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just treated myself to this digital camera for my birthday (having
> checked that it works OK with Linux first), but now try as I might I
> can't seem to make it talk to my box.
> 
> I'm running what is practically a virgin installation of Red Hat 9, only
> now I've upgraded libgphoto2 and gphoto2 with RPMs from Sourceforge.
> 
> I followed instructions to try to get gphoto2 working with it, so now
> when I switch the camera on it's detected and since there's no driver
> set to handle it, hotplug is used to run a script that should launch
> gtkam.  In fact it's the script that ships with gphoto2 called
> usbcam.x11 (listed below).  gtkam doesn't start though, and refuses to
> detect my camera if I start it manually.

Have you tried gphoto2 from the command line?
gphoto2 --auto-detect
(or --autodetect, can't remember off the top of my head)

gphoto2 --get-all-files

Also, try as root
It may just be a permissions problem, I've had that on mine.

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