[ILUG] USB Camera problems

[Robert Jennings]

Eamon,

gphoto will need the port device. see usage at 
http://www.gphoto.org/gphoto2/cli.html

I managed to get the device from /var/log/messages when I switched on the 
camera. Mine is a kodak dc280. It looked like :-

kernel: dc2xx.c: USB Camera #0 connected, major/minor 180/80

Once you have the major & minor numbers you should be able to go to 
/dev/usb and find your device file. Mine looked like :-

crw-------    1 robj     root     180,  80 Aug 30  2001 dc2xx0

gtkam is just a fromt end for gphoto so no doubt there fill be a field for 
the port device. There is on the gphoto GUI.

Hope this helps.

RJ

On 20 Jun 2002, Eamonn Shinners wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 	I have very little experience with USB stuff, so I'm at a dead end with
> this. I have a UMAX AstraPix 320S camera with USB connection, which I
> have tried connecting to my desktop and laptop, both running RH7.3 . I
> know the connection is OK 'cos it works under that unementionable OS.
> 	Using the KDE control centre, a look under information/USB shows both
> USB hubs, and a digital camera connected to hub 1 ( both hubs being
> internal ports ). This tells me that the camera has the following;
> 
> USB version 1.16
> Vendor ID 0xd64
> Product ID 0x1001
> 
> Both hubs have USB version 1.0
> 
> 	When I run gtkam, the frontend for gphoto2, and turn on debug, it
> returns the following;
> 
> *** ERROR *** Could not find USB device (vendor 0x553, product 0x202).
> Make sure this device is connected to the computer.
> 
> The camera is supported by gphoto2, the obvious thing is the different
> vendor and product ID's.
> 
> Do I need to set anything up on the machine before I even try connecting
> the camera.
> 
> Any help gratefully received.
> 
> Eamonn
> 
> 
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