Has anyone succeeded in putting CHDK onto an EOS 350D from a Linux machine?
I have tried, and failed. Here are some of the things I've done so far:
a) I follow the instructions on
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/350D and am following the 7 steps listed there. I get as far as the end of point 3 i.e. the card has had scanled.fir put onto it, it has been in the camera, the firmware upgrade ran, the blue light came on, I waited 30 seconds after it stopped blinking, I turned off the camera, took out the battery, slipped the battery back in and left the camera off.
So now I am at step 4 - since I am on a Ubuntu machine I try to run cardtricks from Wine. I do get the cardtricks menu
up and as I insert the CF card into the reader the software blinks once and then I can click on the card icon and get a menu from which I choose the CF card. Cardtricks then refreshes and indicates that the card has NTFS on it.
As step 4 says I must format the card I click on the "format as FAT" button and I get the warning that all data will be destroyed, I click OK, then I get the write protect tab warning ... um ... step 5 says not to worry ... ok ... but what shall I do? Shall I press the OK button? If I do nothing else happens. So, no changes are made to the card.
I then start up gparted to see the card and it is formatted as one big block of almost 1 Gbyte and is bootable. But gparted says it is FAT16.
That card was last formatted in the camera.
Now, as there are many more mysteries here I will start somewhere near the start:
Q: can anyone say why cardtricks under wine does not format the card? Is it bad that cardtricks sees NTFS and not FAT16 on the card?
Sorry for the length of this!
Info:
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Camera: EOS 350D, Firmware 1.0.3
1 GB CF II card - no write protect tab.
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Computer:
PC with Ubuntu 9.10
Wine 1.0.1 is installed
Catrdicks seems to be 1.44, i.e. I have "Cardtricks 144.exe"
card reader is from Trust
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