On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:18:04PM +0100, andy wrote: > 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! >> >> >> >> > 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. > you've either got a problem in udev where its not creating the device properly, or are missing one of the gphoto libraries (as Ron suggested) or you have a usb driver/hardware problem. You switched to a different port, but is it actually on a seperate usb bus? watch syslog to see. if its the sme bus, then you may not be doing anything useful by switching to that other port. I would try several ports. Also, as another temporary fix (stillgoing on holiday, right?) you could get the device information from your wife's machine and make static /dev nodes for the thing (mknod or MAKEDEV, can't remember). That might work. Otherwise, start looking for differences between the two systems. look at version numbers of udev, *gphoto*, and the various front ends (although I'm sure its not a front end issue). hth A
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