Re: digital camera

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 07:12, Bill Wisse wrote:
> Getting the pictures of a digital camera in Linux can be a problem.
> In fact in my case I cannot get it to work at all!
> My Ricoh Caplio RR30 just doesn't work with Linux.
> After looking for a solution on internet and Linux lists I found out that tens 
> of digital camera's are not working with Linux.

As has already been explained, this is not Linux's fault.
Your manufacturer (Ricoh) refuses to release the specifications
for how the camera works, so no-one can write a driver for it
except the Microsoft vendors who have paid up front for the specs.

> And it really p........ you off when you realize that to get it to work in M$, 
> you only have to put the cdrom in!

Money talks. 

///Peter