I hope that someone can help me. I have a kodak dx 4330 digital camera and for the last 2 weeks i have been trying everything that i can think of to get it to work in rh 9. i have used gtkam 0.1.7, which came with my version of linux, and it just recognizes it as a ptp camera, but it always gives me a message saying that it can not initialize camera. I went to gphoto.net and saw that they now have support for the dx 4330, so i downloaded and installed the latest programs. gtkam 0.1.9 and libgphoto2 2.1.1, but when i installed it, and everything appeared to be successful, nothing is new. it still doesn't list my camera model, still says the same version of gtkam... 0.1.7, etc. I have searched the web and found a few sites, but none of their ideas worked either. i tried hand mounting the usb hub that my camera is connected too using # mount /dev/sda /mnt/pics but it says that sda is not a valid block device. does anybody have any idea how i can get my camera to work in linux? any help would be wonderful.

Have a look at the following link,
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x405.html

Aussie,

Thank you for your help. i am looking over the info right now and, hopefully, this will fix the problem. if not, i will post again

I have that camara!
I just plugged it in once when I was in KDE and the icon just appeared on the desktop. Mandrake rocks, and that camara can work perfectly with linux.

hi proud. i guess i am going to have to switch distro's huh

okay, now for a little update. I read that website that was posted by aussie and followed what it said. when i do a #cat /proc/bus/usb/devices it names the camera and the manufacturer and everything but under drivers it still says none. So, how do i get a driver for it? i am trying to use the 'easy share dock'. Do i have to connect directly from the camera or doesn't it matter?

Well at least you know it can work fine, so dont give up yet
I dont have the easy share dock, or any memory cards, I just plugged the usb cable into the camara and could browse the images in it.
The program is GTKam I believe, maybe from gphoto.net, or is it telling me libgphoto2 is from there...
I installed a lot of packages by default, so I dunno if I can tell you which ones you'll need to use the thing.

I know that it can work. I just have to get this thing figured out. I have downloaded the latest version of libgphoto, gphoto2, and gtkam, but it isn't showing the latest version in the version check. I guess i should just download the tarball's of them and not rely on the RPM's, huh?

Weird. I know I've installed from source before and accidentally done it into a different directory and thus not overwritten an older version, but I've not had problems with rpms not upgrading.
Did they install ok, no unsatisfied dependancies?

Well, I installed the RPM's for libgphoto2 and gtkam, and they installed fine, with no errors or anything. When I tried to install the RPM for gphoto2, it said that there was dependency problems and install would not continue. I just downloaded the tarballs for all three, and I am looking on the web for info on how to install tarball's. I have never done it before, so I am learning as I go. Do you have to physically move the files after you build them to the proper directory? I found one website on installing tarballs, so I am following that. I guess I am going to have to print it out and see if I can get it done without messing up my system

Have you loaded the usb module for your camera?

I had a look at my source tree and there's a USB module for the kodak dc series cameras 'usb_dc2xx' listed. Maybe try a modprobe 'usb_dc2xx' and see what happens. Take a look at dmesg output or your /var/log/messages (or /var/log/syslog depending on your distro) to see what it spits out.

Yeah, I'd suggest you dont mix tarballs and RPMs. Normally satisfying the dependancies just involves installing some tiny development or source packages off your distro's cd

mcleodnine,

sorry about taking so long getting back to your post. I don't know if I have 'usb_dc2xx' or not. When I try a modprobe it says no such command or something like that. So, I guess I don't know anything about modprobe when I do a man on it, it lists it, but only in section 8. I decided to do some homework for you, though so bear with me. First, I did: #cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers and I get the following:

usbdevfs
hub
96-111: hiddev
hid
48- 63: usbscanner

I don't know if that helps or not. Second, I got the output from both dmesg, which gives me the following:

Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:02.0
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc8844000, IRQ 12
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] USB 1.1 Controller
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
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 00:02.0-1, assigned address 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal
Adding Swap: 257000k swap-space (priority -1)
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 3
input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb1:3.0
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1.3, assigned address 4
usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x3f0/0x205) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver usbscanner
scanner.c: 0.4.9:USB Scanner Driver
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 9500 Rev: 1.0e
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Sorry about the length. I cut off a lot of stuff at the top to shorten it a bit. Then I did a tail on /var/log/messages to get this:

May 1 16:56:25 localhost kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
May 1 16:58:19 localhost su(pam_unix)[3583]: session opened for user root by ron(uid=500)
May 1 17:07:59 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1.4, assigned address 5
May 1 17:07:59 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x40a/0x555) is not claimed by any active driver.
May 1 17:08:03 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 40a/555/100
May 1 17:15:15 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-1.4 address 5
May 1 17:15:17 localhost devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted
May 1 17:16:07 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1.4, assigned address 6
May 1 17:16:07 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 6 (vend/prod 0x40a/0x555) is not claimed by any active driver.
May 1 17:16:10 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 40a/555/100

It looks like it isn't finding any drivers for the camera. I hope this helps you some. Sorry about the length.

When you installed libgphoto2 and gtkam did you do it from source or RPM? If it was from source and you didn't specify a prefix, it will have installed in /usr/local which means it will do no good.
You either need to remove all the versions you have installed, then recompile it with "./configure --prefix=/usr" and make and make install. That might make it work.
If you installed from RPM, did you remove the old one first? Or let it upgrade? You will also need to run ldconfig afterwards to update the library database.

I installed all three from RPM's. No, I did not remove the old ones. I just let it upgrade. Should I remove the old ones first or doesn't it matter? I will run ldconfig now. Thanks for the advice.