Praedor, Well- I tried all that page suggested, as root, from command line, or gui, every way possible, and it doesn't work. The camera is obviously connected and detected, as the personal info from the owner and the model comes up. The test is successful (sometimes). Errors are listed below, for what it's worth. I've removed all changes I made, and uninstalled gphoto2 (gtkam). All that messed up my system- Software installer no longer works, and I can no longer edit any text doc in my /home partition using the mouse to open the doc. It now opens in kedit, seeming with no permissions for user, yet permissions tab under properties says user is owner, and has read, write. This is after removing all changes, and a cold reboot. Looks like I have to reinstall (Again!)
I'm ready to give up on Mandrake and USB cameras. After two weeks and literally 60 hours wasted trying to get a simple digital camera to download jpgs, I'm rethinking my commitment to Linux. I've posted on forums, groups, and read everything I can find. I can't find anyone who can give me a simple 1,2,3 on how they got their Canon PowerShot to work on a generic Mandrake 9.0 install. I'm a patient 60 year old man, however, this is the sort of thing that makes people drop Linux- this and the nvidia driver insanity, and go back to windows. Anyway, to those who did try to help, I sincerely thank you, as I know you did your best. Robert Crawford ---------------------------------------------------- Camera test successful --------------------------------------------- unspecified error could not list folders in "/". canon_usb_get_dirents: canon_usb_long_dialogue failed to fetch direntrys, returned -1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Could not get file list for folder"/" canon_int_list_dir: ERROR: initial message too short (0 < minimum 11) ---------------------------------------- Bad Parameters could not list folders in "/" --------------------------- Could not claim the USB device could not initilize camera -------------------------------------------- Unable to initialize camera- check your port settings and camera connectivity, and try again On Wednesday 11 December 2002 05:42 am, alan wrote: > Don't forget to enable scsi support. It is used by usb-storage. (And > cameras tend to show up as usb-storage devices.) > > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > The kernel config stuff shouldn't matter unless you are going to rebuild > > your kernel. As it is, having the usb drivers as modules should be OK. > > The parts that likely apply (from the website) are the fstab part (or the > > mount command in lieu of fstab editing). > > > > Let me know if you get it working...I will have occassion to deal with > > that particular camera soon and would like to know what I will have to > > do... > > > > On Wednesday 11 December 2002 01:33 pm, flacycads wrote: > > > Thanks Praedor and all, > > > I read the page, and I think I'm on the right track now. Here's the > > > relevant stock Mandrake usb sections of the config file in /boot. There > > > is only one difference from what that page says, in that CONFIG_USB=y > > > is configured as a module (m). Should I recompile the kernel and change > > > that, or load the module? Will adding the fstab line or modprobe > > > usb-uhci load the needed module? When I get the camera back, I'll give > > > it a try. Robert C. > > > ---------------------------------------- > > > # > > > # USB support > > > # > > > CONFIG_USB=m > > > > [...]
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