[PLUG] Digital Camera on Linux

Lance Means lmeans at gmail.com
Sat Sep 25 12:52:02 UTC 2004


I am using Fedora Core 2 with a USB Kodak camera. I plugged the USB
cable into my camera, turned it on, opened gThumb Image Viewer,
File/Import Photos from the menu. gThumb found my camera and imported
the pictures.


On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:13:31 -0700, Alice Corbin <ali at axian.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:42:33AM -0700, Ovid wrote:
> > --- Alice Corbin <ali at axian.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 09:22:32AM -0700, Ovid wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I have a Samsung Digimax 430 digital camera and I want to download the pics from it.  It was
> > > no
> > > > problem on Windows, but my Fedora Core 2 system seems to be having problems.
> > [snip]
> > > > Any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > Plug it in and turn it on, then run dmesg (or otherwise look at the end of
> > > /var/log/messages) and see if it says anything about usb, or possibly scsi.
> >
> > I see the following:
> >
> >   Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> >   usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> >   USB Mass Storage support registered.
> >   ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
> >   ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64
> >   loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> >
> > However, I saw that both before and after I turned on the camera.  Since I was messing around
> > quite a bit with this, I wonder if I did something earlier that would lead to this.  I also see
> > the following at the end of /var/log/messages:
> >
> >   Sep 25 10:43:04 tomis bonobo-activation-server (ovid-17015): iid OAFIID:BrokenNoType:20000808
> > has a NULL type
> >   Sep 25 10:43:04 tomis bonobo-activation-server (ovid-17015): invalid character '#' in iid
> > 'OAFIID:This#!!%$iid%^$%_|~!OAFIID_ContainsBadChars'
> >   Sep 25 10:45:06 tomis su(pam_unix)[17038]: session opened for user root by (uid=500)
> >
> > Those timestamps are roughly when I tried to start the camera.
> > 
> Hmmm, I wonder if your camera is not reporting itself correctly.  I would
> have hoped that it would report itself as a block device that the kernel
> could load a driver for.  You can try catting out /proc/bus/usb/devices
> to see if a recognizable device showed up.  But if the camera won't play
> fair, then I think that you will have to go the route of pulling the
> memory and sticking it in a reader.  (or go back to windows)
> 
> Ali
> 
> 
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