Kodak Digital Camera Troubles

opioid · 05-12-2004, 04:45 PM

Hi all, I'm back with digital camera problems this time. I have tried everything and I can't get this cheap-ass made for M$ POS to work on my redhat box. Why, how very unlikely!

I'll tell what I've tried, then hopefully someone will tell me what I should have done:

First, I tried plugging it into the USB port, thinking that a folder would automagically appear on my desktop. When that didn't happen, I found out a lot more about modules and built-in kernel support than my tiny brain could ever hope to comprehend. (I'm a little squirming bug. )

"So," I said, "let's read some logs for breakfast:"

dmesg:

Code:

Linux version 2.4.24-1.ll.rh90.ccrmasmp (root@cmn19.Stanford.EDU) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 SMP Mon Jan 5 13:48:52 PST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6c00 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000040fd800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000040fd800 - 00000000040ff800 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000040ff800 - 00000000040ffc00 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000040ffc00 - 0000000008000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe6c00 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
128MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0002000
On node 0 totalpages: 32768
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28672 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 1999 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 449.009 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 884.73 BogoMIPS
Memory: 125908k/131072k available (1687k kernel code, 4764k reserved, 585k data, 208k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 02
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1461.26 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 448.0877 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 99.0750 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 99750, slice: 49875
CPU0<T0:99744,T1:49856,D:13,S:49875,C:99750>
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd993, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: Card 'NE2000 PLUG & PLAY ETHERNET CARD'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
        -0420: *** Error: Could not allocate an object descriptor
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1020-0x1027, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1028-0x102f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD300BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC29100D, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03d5740, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03d588c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:28D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9300, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3649/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 17803440 sectors (9115 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=1108/255/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
 hdb:
ide: late registration of driver.
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 148k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 14:04:23 Jan  5 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0c.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1000, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x40a/0x555) is not claimed by any active driver.
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
Adding Swap: 257032k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
hdd: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
  Vendor: HP        Model: CD-Writer+ 9300   Rev: 1.0c
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Got that?

And here's lsmod output:

Code:

[root@localhost jphoto-0.3.6-i386]# /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
uhci                   31920   0  (unused)
usbcore                84000   1  [uhci]
sg                     38604   0  (autoclean)
sr_mod                 18200   0  (autoclean)
sd_mod                 13420   0  (autoclean) (unused)
binfmt_misc             8040   1
autofs                 13940   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ipt_ttl                 1176   1  (autoclean)
ipt_unclean             8056   2  (autoclean)
ipt_limit               1752  34  (autoclean)
ipt_state               1080   5  (autoclean)
iptable_filter          2444   1  (autoclean)
iptable_mangle          2808   0  (unused)
ipt_LOG                 4376   1
ipt_MASQUERADE          2520   0  (unused)
ipt_TOS                 1656   0  (unused)
ipt_REDIRECT            1400   0  (unused)
iptable_nat            23864   0  [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT]
ipt_REJECT              4344   0  (unused)
ip_tables              16512  14  [ipt_ttl ipt_unclean ipt_limit ipt_state iptable_filter iptable_mangle ipt_LOG ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_TOS ipt_REDIRECT iptable_nat ipt_REJECT]
ip_conntrack_irc        4304   0  (unused)
ip_conntrack_ftp        5520   0  (unused)
ip_conntrack           33448   4  [ipt_state ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT iptable_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp]
ne                      8192   1
8390                    9604   0  [ne]
crc32                   3780   0  [8390]
ide-scsi               12400   0
scsi_mod              112820   4  [sg sr_mod sd_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd                 36224   0
cdrom                  34464   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
keybdev                 2976   0  (unused)
mousedev                5720   1
input                   6176   0  [keybdev mousedev]
ext3                   74596   2
jbd                    58320   2  [ext3]

Not to quit without confusing myself further,

[root@localhost jphoto-0.3.6-i386]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

Arrrgh!

I cannot get jphoto or gphoto2 to "see" my Kodak EasyShare DX4330. I did not buy this crappy camera. Someone bought this crappy camera and it fell into my hands. The least I want is for the thing to work, which it does not. I have installed hotplug usb drivers, which **should** detect it at the time I plug this stupid freaking thing into the USB port. But no, that is also useless.

Can somebody please help me lower my BP before I go into cardiac arrest? I feel like this bug that's squirming right here on my desk, on it's back, can't turn back over onto its legs.

-O-

superbondbond · 05-12-2004, 05:52 PM

You're on the right track.

One thing I noticed in your lsmod output was you don't have the usb mass storage device loaded (usb-storage.o). Try this.

load the usb-storage module. modprobe usb-storage

plug in the camera.

look at you dmesg again (hint: if you only want items related to usb do a dmesg |grep usb)
you'll hopefully see something about the camera this time.

If so, try mounting the camera as you did before.

as always, post any errors.

crashmeister · 05-12-2004, 06:02 PM

You don't need to mount the kodak cameras AFAIK.I got a cheapass something and that didn't need mounting.What you do is go to the ghpoto2 site,see if it is supported.If it is install gphoto2 and a frontend (i use digikam) for it,go to configure try to see what happens.
If it doesn't find the camera try as root and fix the permissions for the user if that works.
If it doesn't work as root curse out your kernel and read the documentation at gphoto,especially the usb and hotplug part.

superbondbond · 05-12-2004, 06:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by crashmeister
....If it doesn't work as root curse out your kernel....

LMAO

opioid · 05-15-2004, 04:40 AM

Yeah, well that piece of crap was luckily still under warranty. Before I could bitchslap my kernel the viewer got fuzzy and started whacking out. OOps! So much for that. You said slap the kernel, right, and not the camera?

Thanks for the replies and duh on the grep | usb thing. :]

crashmeister · 05-15-2004, 05:00 AM

Whatever works for you

Seriously - you probably better off with another camera.I had a 6230 and no problems with getting it to work but the pictures (most of the outdoors shots with a lot of light) looked like there was heavy fog .Could be fixed with gimp but thats not what I got a camera for.