Hey,

I have a Digital Camera I would like to get working on my box. My box is an Athlong-64 running a 64-bit version of Gentoo. My camera is an Aiptek Mini PenCam 1.3 mega. It's not a mass storage device camera or a camera with any sort of removable media card. I have successfully retrieved photos from the camera on my other 32-bit gentoo machine however when I try to set it up on my 64-bit box it does not want to work. I am trying to use KDE control center to set it up. Control Center->Peripherals-> Digital Camera. I believe that underneath it's accessing gphoto2, wich I have installed along with a bunch of dependencies. The command lsusb seems to identify the camera being there;

bash-2.05b# lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 04fc:504a Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd SPCA504a Digital Camera
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Anyway when I press the "Test" button in the Control Center it says;

Unable to initialize camera. Check your port settings and camera connectivity and try again.
Details: Bad parameters

I also try to access the photos via konqueror and the camera:/ or is it camera:\ command. Either way it does not work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ToolBoy

I don't know anything about the KDE-way of getting pictures from a camera, but I can tell you how I do it - and then you can try the same thing:

1. plug the camera to the computers (i assume you're using usb here). Then, as root:
If everything went ok, you can now cd into /mnt/pictures and get the photos

These are instructions for mounting a camera that acts like a mass storage device, no? My camera is not a mass storage device. I am starting to beleive that maybe my issue is related to device permissions. When I plug in the camera hotplug wants to run a script: /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam this script should set the camera permissions to allow anyone in the group "camera" to access the camera. However, the script seems indicate that it's for a devfs system while I am running a udev system. I could be wrong but I am only a noob. Not sure what to do now.

TOOL

OK, it turns out it was not a permissions thing. It seems libgphoto2 was not compiling with usb support. Here is a bug report. Which someone directed me to. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90777 Some programs that were intalling usbutils and libusb were conflicting. The solution that worked for me was to make sure I had an up to date portage tree by running emerge --sync and then reinstalling these three programs, usbutils, libusb, and libgphoto2. All in that specific order.

Guess that's it,
ToolBoy