Can someone tell me how to set up a Digital Camera in Fedora Core 2 when the camera is newer than the ones listed? The system recognizes DX6440 the version just prior to the one I have - a Kodak DX7630, but I can not use it in my FC2 environment - help....

Your camera is probably an USB storage device, a standardized interface for USB devices. Connect your camera to the USB port and issue the dmesg command as root. Look for an entry similar to this one: If you have an entry similar to this one, you could test to mount it. Let's, for convenience, mount it as floppy:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/floppy
(You may need to have another device than sda1, look in the output from dmesg.)

Does this work? Can you see the pictures in your camera if you click on the floppy icon on the desktop? If so, we can go on to make this a little more automated.

Before disconnecting the camera, unmount it:
umount /mnt/floppy

Martin

Appreciate the reply; however, in using 'dmesg' I got about 4 screens of data - none of which looks like you suggest and to this 'noobie' it is a great mystery. When attempting to mount the feature, I get a note '...unable to locate .....'.

Guess I'll just have to wait until the DX7630 is a featured camera on a future Fedora release.

Bob

After you attach the camera via USB the message should be at the end of the dmesg output.

If you can connect the camera to a Windows ME/2000/XP computer without any special driver software and it shows up as a drive under "My Computer" then it is indeed an USB storage device.

Martin

Appreciate the assistance. The camera is indeed a device under XP as drive E; however, when in FC2, it is not shown as any entry under Hard Drive or the other options under 'hardware browser'. Here is what I see when the DX7630 is attached and I run 'dmesg':

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[root@localhost root]# dmesg
Linux version 2.6.8-1.521 (bhcompile@tweety.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Mon Aug 16 09:01:18 EDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ff6f000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff6f000 - 000000003ff71000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff71000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
1023MB LOWMEM available.
zapping low mappings.
On node 0 totalpages: 261999
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 257903 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fd540
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL 8250 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd554
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL 8250 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd588
ACPI: SSDT (v001 DELL st_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0xfffe5e96
ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL 8250 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd5fc
ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL 8250 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd668
ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELL dt_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
mapped 4G/4G trampoline to ffff3000.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=023c7000 soft=023c6000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
Detected 2520.239 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Memory: 1034452k/1047996k available (2012k kernel code, 12760k reserved, 651k data, 140k init, 0k highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 4980.73 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed.
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000080
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz stepping 07
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 187k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbeee, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 3
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.1[B] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.2[C] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.1[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.2[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0c.0[A] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1097137437.815:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 9488DB81FF525AA3
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
ksign: invalid packet (ctb=00)
Unable to load default keyring: error=74
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i850 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xec000000
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 4
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
hda: IC35L120AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD300EB-75CPF0, ATA DISK drive
Using cfq io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: LITE-ON LTR-48246S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 241254720 sectors (123522 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: hda1
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=58168/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 37449)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 0235c2a0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.2[C] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ehci_hcd 0000:02:01.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:02:01.2: irq 9, pci mem 4283ac00
ehci_hcd 0000:02:01.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:02:01.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2004-May-10
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.2[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ehci_hcd 0000:02:02.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:02:02.2: irq 10, pci mem 42857800
ehci_hcd 0000:02:02.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ehci_hcd 0000:02:02.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2004-May-10
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:02:01.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:02:01.0: irq 10, io base 0000ece0
uhci_hcd 0000:02:01.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.1[B] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
uhci_hcd 0000:02:01.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:02:01.1: irq 3, io base 0000ecc0
uhci_hcd 0000:02:01.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
uhci_hcd 0000:02:02.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:02:02.0: irq 3, io base 0000eca0
uhci_hcd 0000:02:02.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.1[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:02:02.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:02:02.1: irq 11, io base 0000ec80
uhci_hcd 0000:02:02.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 6-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
usb 5-2: new full speed USB device using address 3
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: HP Model: psc 2175 Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x2B11
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
Adding 2047744k swap on /dev/hdb3. Priority:-1 extents:1
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: No new microdata for cpu 0
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
kudzu: Using deprecated /dev/sg mechanism instead of SG_IO on the actual device
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8-1.521
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.18
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0c.0[A] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfe1fe000, irq 3, MAC addr 00:07:E9:C4:A9:32
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8187 buckets, 65496 max) - 320 bytes per conntrack
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.18
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0c.0[A] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfe1fe000, irq 3, MAC addr 00:07:E9:C4:A9:32
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49516 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
python: Using deprecated /dev/sg mechanism instead of SG_IO on the actual device[root@localhost root]#
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As you can see, it is quite a lot of information.

Well now - after I sent the above, I returned to my Hardware Browser and the camera now shows as a 'system device'. Does that complicate the issue? This is the first time I've noticed that it was recognized, but not as a 'scsi' device nor under the USB devices. By the way, I did not 'install' any software on the FC2 HDD, although I did so on the XP side of my PC.

sgtbob