Re: can't detect Canon A75 digital camera

[Tamas K Papp <tpapp@Princeton.EDU>]

I kept trying, and discovered that when I am root, lsusb lists the
camera and gphoto2 works.  What should I do to use it as a normal user?

Thanks

Tamas

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:49:09PM -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> When I attach the camera and turn it on, I get a popup window saying:
> "Import photos from camera?" --- it must be some kind of gnome thing,
> I don't know where it is coming from.  Whether I choose Import Photos,
> or simply start gtkam or gphoto2 --auto-detect, it cannot see the
> camera.
> 
> the relevant section from /proc/bus/usb/devices:
> 
> T:  Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  8 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
> D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=32 #Cfgs=  1
> P:  Vendor=04a9 ProdID=30b5 Rev= 0.01
> S:  Manufacturer=Canon Inc.
> S:  Product=Canon Digital Camera
> C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=100mA
> I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=06(still) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
> E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
> E:  Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
> E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=96ms
> 
> but
> 
> % lsusb
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ac:1000 Apple Computer, Inc.
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> 
> shouldn't the camera appear here too?
> 
> My kernel is
> % uname -a
> Linux tpapp.student.princeton.edu 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Thu Feb 24 14:15:19 CET 2005 ppc GNU/Linux
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tamas