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Re: USB driver for digital camera?



On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 02:47:06PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> My wife just bought me a Polaroid PhotoMAX 640 SE for Fathers' Day, at a 
> yard sale.  It seems to be complete with everything except the original 
> batteries and I am trying to get it working under Linux.  It says that 
> it is TWAIN compatible and comes with both a USB and a serial adapter.  
> I am hoping to use the USB connector.
> 
> I am running Sarge and have just installed kernel 2.4.26-1-k7.  I have 
> had USB running to sync with my HandSpring Visor and I now have the 
> usb-storage.o module loading from /etc/modules.
> 
> When I plug the camera in and turn it on, however, I get a message 
> saying that USB has detected the new device, but that there is no active 
> driver for it.  Is there a linux driver/kernel module that I need to 
> load to use this device?
> 
> Any and all help will be appreciated, as I would really like to be able 
> to use this camera.
> 
> BTW, Polaroid is not manufacturing the camera any more and never 
> developed drivers for Linux, or Mac.  No wonder it is no longer in 
> production!
> 

If its twain compatible its probably not acting as a usb-storage device
but more probably using a scanner or webcam interface.

You could try the webcam software such as gphoto2 and friends (depends
on video for linux in the kernel IIRC) or I think there is also a
camera backend for (x)sane.

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