My camera: a Canon Powershot S1 IS (bought in the summer 2004)

• Start VMware.
• Plug in camera.
• Windows wizard for camera comes up, next next finish etc.
• Transfer files to VMware host.

Previous attempts at extracting pictures *gasp* without VMware.

• gphoto2 – error
• sudo gphoto2 – error
• su – ; gphoto2
• digikam – error
• kdesu digikam – error (used to work until recently)
• gthumb – error
• sudo gthumb – error
• su – ; gthumb – error

How friggin embarrassing is it that the same usb signal passing through the kernel and into VMware can be correctly processed in VMware, but not in linux?

I’ve searched high and low for a solution, this problem goes back a year. I’ve gone through various kernels, various versions of different libraries and applications, and the only thing that used to work was digikam in root mode. For some reason that doesn’t work anymore.

UPDATE: After some renewed research (been months since last time I gave up on getting this fixed), it looks like the bug has been figured out. Installing gphoto2-2.2.0 (still marked unstable on x86) finally took care of it.

What a load off. And to think Windows helped fix it.