I have purchased a Kodak Easyshare CX6230 digital camera, and it works great. However, I can only access the images and video via root. This topic has been brought up before, but none of the answers seem to help my position. I am running SuSE 8.1.
One thing in particular that I would like to know is what device linux is using to mount the camera. It is not sda1 or any of the sb*. When I use the Hardware Information with Yast2 it just tells me that it is running on "usb:". How can I find out what device is being used? I guess I am trying to change the permissions to allow access to my user account.

Thanks...

To find out:

dmesg | more

And page through for the scsi device scan, at the bottom there will be a partition check. It'll look somewhat like this:

Ignore that /dev/scsi/host blah blah crap, just Gentoo's kernel and devfs, you should probably see /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 or something like that.

Then its just a matter of making an entry for it in /etc/fstab, which you can probably find examples for somewhere, if not, post back.

Cheers

Finegan

Thanks for the reply finegan... This is the output that dmesg gave me:

hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x40a/0x573) is not claimed by any active driver.

I am not sure were to go with this because it does not reflect what you indicated should have been displayed.

That's weird, it says that despite the fact that you can access the stuff on the camera? you can actually get to the stuff on the camera right? There's got to be a usb-storage load somewhere in there, it kinda has to happen. That's just strange. Right after accessing pictures check the dmesg output. What are you using to get to them? gphoto? Does it just appear as a mounted device on the desktop?

Cheers,

Finegan

Ok.... I have been accessing my camera as root via gtkam, works great that way. It will also work with Konqueror, and other software. But, only as root. The message I received was given while I was using gtkam.
The icon that appeared, when using my user account, worked until I wanted to access the folder that contained the photos. Because it was not working properly, and I was getting impatient, I deleted it. When I use the KDE control center, with a user account, it tells me that it is unable to initialize the camera, and when I view the details it indicates that it could not claim the USB device.

How puzzling.

Hmmm... what happens when you:

modprobe usb-storage

Then check dmesg, it had to have been using mass-storage, at least that's all that makes sense. If it kicks errors, check /sbin/lsmod to see if its already loaded.

Cheers,

Finegan

This is a tough one. When I apply the modprobe usb-storage and then dmesg I get the same reuslts:


Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x40a/0x573) is not claimed by any active driver.


I am wondering if other SuSE distros have similiar problems?

Well finegan, I figured it out. It was not my distro at fault, it was me. I neglected to copy the usercam script into my /etc/hotplug/usb directory. I feel a little stupid chasing after nothing, but at the same time I am relieved that my camera works in my account.

Thank-you very much for your help and support finegan. Even though I was at fault here, I really appreciated your attention in this matter.

I never user gtkam, I should have researched that one better, my fault too man.

Cheers,

Finegan

Well well...

i love google. it showed me this page, with someone having the same trouble with the same camera like me.

But i can not solve it.



I am runing Gentoo Linux 1.4 with Kernel 2.4.22-r7
i have emerged hotplug and
compiled scsi support as well as usb-massstorgae support to the kernel as module.


When i plug in the cam in one of the USB Ports, i get the same message as Species

hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x40a/0x573) is not claimed by any active driver.

You wrote somethink about a script you just had copyed to /dev/hotplug/usb. Which script? I do not have one.
Can you tell me what i have to do please?? Maybe in a step by step description, pleeeeaaaaaease???




PS: I have to apologize for my bad english, i am from germany!