PENTAX Optio digital camera support

From: Renaud Lacour (nospam-renaud.lacour-nospam_at_free.fr)
Date: 10/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:34:30 +0200

Hello,

I would like to buy the Pentax Optio S6 digital camera but I wonder if it
is well supported under Linux.

I read about troubles mounting Pentax cameras as usb storage device.
As I read, a solution was to add some information about Pentax cameras in
"driver/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h" of the kernel source. Since the
article from which I read this was more than one year old
(http://blogs.cocoondev.org/michaelm/archives/001759.html), I took a
look at the file from the latest kernel version and it seems that some
lines have been added about Pentax cameras. However, model Optio S6 is
not mentioned. Do you think it is supported ?

Thanks 

-- 
        Renaud LACOUR
	EMail : nospam-renaud.lacour-nospam@free.fr

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