On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 16:07 +1000, Langdon Stevenson wrote: > With previous versions of Fedora I have had issues with my Cannon > Powershot A430 digital camera that I have never resolved. > > I upgraded my workstation to Fedora 8 recently, so today I plugged > the > camera into the workstation rather than my Windows laptop. > > Fedora detected the camera straight away and let me download the > images. > Perfect. Couldn't ask for more. This is one more nail in the > coffin > of Windows on the laptop ... > > I love Fedora. > > Langdon Had a similar experience. Our second daughter bought a cheap digital camera from the Aldi supermarket chain and I had doubts as to whether it would be recognized. Plugged the Traveler DC5900 into F8 laptop and gthumb found it straight away. Could use the Windoze driver CD to scare birds from the almond tree... -- Regards Simon