Hey Sumeet,
What kernel are you using on that slack? The slack 10 kernel is
kind of old... I could get things like my tv tuner and a usb webcam
to work on slack quite effortlessly after compiling a kernel.org 2.6.9
kernel. Btw, slack is planning to do a 10.1 release. I hope it
comes around soon and that Patrick decides on a 2.6 kernel!
I think its that 2.6 kernel that made Fedora/Suse/Mandrake work
flawlessly with your cam... Just my 4 annas..
Anshul
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:20:17 +0530, Sumeet Madhukar Moghe
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I bought the camera(Sony DS-P150 - 7.2 MP), I mentioned a few days back. I
> havent had a problem running it on either of my desktops, which run
> Fedora/Suse/Mandrake. It runs flawlessly under both modes... USB Mass Storage
> and PTP. I faced some issues though, while getting it to work with Slackware,
> which runs my notebook. I wasnt planning to use gphoto2, which in any case
> doesnt ship with Slackware. I started off to use USB mass storage. But I
> faced a problem right away
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su
> Password:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/sumeet# mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat /mnt/camera
> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
>
> I did have all the necessary modules loaded, so I didnt see a reason why it
> shouldnt work.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/sumeet# lsmod
> Module Size Used by Not tainted
> uhci 25852 0 (unused)
> sd_mod 11180 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> 8139too 15400 1
> mii 2400 0 [8139too]
> crc32 2880 0 [8139too]
> i810_audio 24796 0
> ac97_codec 13652 0 [i810_audio]
> soundcore 3652 2 [i810_audio]
> ds 6932 1
> yenta_socket 10880 1
> pcmcia_core 42788 0 [ds yenta_socket]
> ide-scsi 10288 0
> evdev 4576 0 (unused)
> input 3328 0 [evdev]
> usb-storage 70048 0 (unused)
> usbcore 62956 0 [uhci usb-storage]
> scsi_mod 58264 2 [sd_mod ide-scsi usb-storage]
> agpgart 46628 0 (unused)
>
> I then downloaded gphoto2 and digikam, but that didnt work either. In fact I
> had my hotplug system messed up, cos /proc/bus/usb/devices didnt exist. I
> solved this part with a "mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb". I made an
> appropriate entry in /etc/fstab for the same. But even then /var/log/messages
> doesnt report the usb-storage driver or scsi_mod seeing the camera. Also a
> #cat /proc/scsi/scsi gives
> Attached devices: none
>
> While digikam was autodetecting the camera in PTP mode, it failed to
> connect/download from the camera. I solved this problem with a minor tweak:
> a) Added the following lines to /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap
> # usb module match_flags idVendor idProduct bcdDevice_lo bcdDevice_hi
> bDeviceClass bDeviceSubClass bDeviceProtocol bInterfaceClass
> bInterfaceSubClass bInterfaceProtocol driver_info
> # USB PTP Class Camera
> usbcam 0x0080 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000 0x0000
> 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x06 0x00
>
> 0x00 0x00000000
>
> b)Next I hand created the script /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam to read thus
> #!/bin/bash
>
> if [ "${ACTION}" = "add" ] && [ -f "${DEVICE}" ]
> then
> chmod a+rw "${DEVICE}"
> fi
>
> a chmod u+x /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam finished the job. I am now able to use a
> digikam+gphoto2 combo to access the camera through PTP. However PTP isnt
> really my first choice as it drains the batteries very fast as Siddhartha-da
> indicated. I still want to use USB Mass Storage, and I happen to be facing
> issues with that. Everytime I try to do a
> # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera
>
> I get "mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device". I think I am at a dead
> end here, because "tail -f /var/log/messages" doesnt show the camera being
> claimed by the usb-storage driver. OTOH /proc/bus/usb/devices does display
> the device when plugged in via Mass Storage mode. Any hints??
>
> --
> /Sumeet
> PS : I am sorry if some members who are on other lists have got sick of
> looking at this problem every other day, having recieved multiple versions of
> this post/problem.
>
> Sumeet Madhukar Moghe http://smith-morgan.mirrorz.com
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