Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update)

[andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:46:00PM +0100, andy wrote:
>   
> > Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >     
> > > On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote:
> > >   
> > >       
>
> ... Andy is having trouble with his camera...
>    
>   
> > > please provide the output of 
> > > tail -f /var/log/syslog
> > >
> > > while you plug in the camera
> > >       
> > This is the result:
> >
> > Aug  8 18:41:34 valhalla kernel: usb 2-2.2: new full speed USB device using 
> > ohci_hcd and address 10
> > Aug  8 18:41:34 valhalla kernel: usb 2-2.2: not running at top speed; 
> > connect to a high speed hub
> > Aug  8 18:41:34 valhalla kernel: usb 2-2.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 
> > choice
> > Aug  8 18:43:10 valhalla kernel: usb 2-2.2: USB disconnect, address 10
> > Aug  8 18:43:57 valhalla kernel: usb 2-2.2: new full speed USB device using 
> > ohci_hcd and address 11
> > Aug  8 18:43:57 valhalla kernel: usb 2-2.2: not running at top speed; 
> > connect to a high speed hub
> > Aug  8 18:43:57 valhalla kernel: usb 2-2.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 
> > choice
> > Aug  8 18:44:13 valhalla kernel: usb 2-2.2: USB disconnect, address 11
> > Aug  8 18:44:27 valhalla kernel: usb 2-2.3: new full speed USB device using 
> > ohci_hcd and address 12
> > Aug  8 18:44:27 valhalla kernel: usb 2-2.3: not running at top speed; 
> > connect to a high speed hub
> > Aug  8 18:44:27 valhalla kernel: usb 2-2.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 
> > choice
> >
> >     
>
> and that's it? the device isn't resolving properly. Try a different
> USB port. 
>
> Since you are in a time crunch, can I recommend that you just buy an
> inexpensive card reader and use that in the interim? YOu could spend a
> significant amount of time trying to resolve this when you should be
> packing!
>
>
>   
> > A (the other one)
> >     
>
>
> I'll just leave that there and we can recycle as needed.
>   
I have tried the camera on my wife's Etch machine and first time out, 
the camera auto-mounted and I could access the photos!! She runs KDE. So 
I logged out of Gnome and back into KDE on my Lenny machine and again 
the camera (sort of) auto-mounted, but this time I got an error message 
that informed me it didn't recognise the camera type. On my wife's 
machine, the camera type was recognised immediately. I also tried Xfce4 
but zippo happened there, not even the dialog box!!

On her machine, she does not have gphoto2 installed, nor was she set up 
as a member of any camera group. She is also running an earlier kernel 
(2.6.18, I think). So I rebooted and booted into 2.6.18 and all of the 
above still applied.

So, the good news is - the camera is obviously not the problem but the 
bad news is, is that it is something with my machine. But what that is, 
I really don't know. I have switched the USB to a different port, still 
no dice.

Any further thoughts on this, given the foregoing additional info?

Cheers all

A

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