slideshows

[Pete Hicks]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:00:10AM +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
>Tim,
>
>Tim T. wrote:
>
>>   Having just bought a new Canon EOS 350, I was  eager to show my
>> pictures..
>> 
>>  Unfortiunately, I could  not find a working slideshow program:
>> 
>>  - the default viewer in Nautilus (gthumb ? eog ? which is it ?) crashes
>> after loading the first picture.
>>   -  The others (feh, xscreensaver qiv), gtksee  are seemingly unable to
>> rescale my pictures to my  screen
>
>I have the same camera and I download the pictures in PTP mode using
>gThumb (in Applications->Graphics->gThumb). I can run slide shows quite
>nicely, no problem.
>
>Are you taking pictures in RAW mode rather than JPEG? I use JPEG at the
>highest quality. Decoding RAW on Linux seems to be a problem.
>

Have you checked out dcraw?

http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/

Also, digikam currently has RAW support as well.