This is a fresh driver for the Minolta Dimage V camera, which has since been discontinued by Minolta. This driver contains no code form my earlier efforts. The assistance of Minolta was very helpful in writing this driver; I was given a copy of the specification and told that I could "share it with the Linux community". I am interpreting this "sharing" as the GNU GPL. Minolta takes no responsibility for the information they provided me, which is perfectly fair. Please see the file COPYING for more information. Copies of the Dimage V transfer specification are available under the aforementioned "share" clause; I will mail them globally, and fax them anywhere in the US or Canada. A lot of the information is in the code itself, but sometimes the real spec is nice so readers can find my bugs. Minolta has made it clear that they do not wish to release further protocols, and recommend that users of unsupported systems purchase SmartMedia readers to transfer images. This library is far from complete. There are plenty of places where better sanity checking could be done. I will continue to work on it until I buy a newer camera ;> Notes on specific functions: The capture function takes a picture, downloads it, and then deletes it. This image is always named dv00000.jpg, since that holds with the naming convention for the rest of the pictures, and simultaneously cannot be a valid name for an image retrieved from the camera. Sometimes the deletion of an image will fail after it has been retrieved; since reporting this error would mean the entire capture process failed, I merely print a message indicating which image needs to be deleted. This is, in my opinion, preferable to losing the picture entirely. The camera_init() function attempts to set the camera clock to the current system time. If it fails, the init function can still succeed; I do not believe that failing to set the clock should mean failure to initialize. The same is true of the camera_exit() function. At long last, the preview thumbnails finally work! The strange distortions that were occurring previously have been eliminated, and I have been able to retrieve accurate thumbnails reliably for the last several hundred images. This puts this driver as the first that I know of that handles the Dimage V thumbnail format; there were other programs to connect, but all (including my earlier attempts) just gave up on the retrieved data. More information on the file format can be obtained in the code itself. Deleting all images is now implemented correctly. This beats iterating across all of them, hands down. Here are the pinouts for the serial cable: _____________ /-----\ \ 5 4 3 2 1 / / X X X \ \ 9 8 7 6 / | 2 5 3 | --------- -| 8 7 |- ----- --Gus Hartmann,