On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Theodore Kilgore wrote:

> Well, yes, and no, I would suspect. I would guess that so long as two
> cameras use the same controller chip, they are pretty much identical. The
> issue with this particular camera could well be, that I seem to have a new
> chip from the manufacturer of an older chip, for which the driver routine
> is quite well established. And the new chip runs with the old driver code
> on one of my boxes, but not on the other.

> I am glad to have the opinion of someone more knowledgeable that I am
> about the "guts" of the system about this. It does help to narrow things
> down. Still, I do wonder why the camera functions perfectly on one
> computer and not on the other. I would think that if the camera does not
> like gphoto2's command sequence, it would not work on either one of the
> boxes, or if it finds nothing objectionable it would work on both. Don't
> take this as an argumentative stance, please. I am just restating that I
> am puzzled.

You're right about the command sequences.  Maybe what's going on is
that either the USB controller on your computer or the controller on the
camera is slightly out-of-spec, with the result that they don't work with
each other but they each do work with other cameras/computers.


> Gphoto2 is a "userspace" program which uses libusb to communicate with the
> USB system. Could it be that the glitches come from somewhere within
> libusb? If so, then, since apparently your expertise is in the kernel USB
> area, who is the expert on libusb and how would it be possible to localize
> the source of any problems from that side?

I don't think libusb is your problem.  It just passes the program's 
requests to the kernel.

Alan Stern



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