hi,

This weekend I bought a logitech pocket cam (nifty little thing that slides in to my pocket and perfect for taking pictures on just a day out to Amsterdam for instance or when I go skating)

And it works quite well, with a steady hand even just as well as the much more expensive camera my bf has :-)

But I can only get it to work in Windhoze!
It's connected to the pc with a usb cable (it feeds through the usb cable as well).
Anyone know how I can get linux to read from the camera?

anne

You'd have to tell us the model of this camera, for my camera(very small one that's the size of 3 x pens), I found the driver here...

http://stv0680-usb.sourceforge.net/

As I said it's the logitech pocket cam, I've searched the net for more technical info on it, but can't find it.
I did notice that linux read some info through the usb connection, i'll have to check that tonight (my current time: 14:39)

Anne

If it's not supported by gphoto then you can try mounting it as a USB mass storage device.

I tried that, in var/log/messages it says that it's labelled usb device 3, but then I don't know what the name of the device is that I have to mount.
lsusb does recognize the details of the cameras (manufacturer, memory etc)

Anne

What exactly does lsusb have to say about it?

I'll have to get back to you on that one tonight (I'm at work now)
That'll be in about 6-7 hours.

Anne

Here goes:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:0950 Logitech Inc.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 0 Interface
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x046d Logitech Inc.
idProduct 0x0950
bcdDevice 0.00
iManufacturer 1 SMaL
iProduct 2 Pocket Digital Camera
iSerial 0
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 32
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 3
bmAttributes 0xc0
Self Powered
MaxPower 90mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 2
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 0
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type none
wMaxPacketSize 64
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type none
wMaxPacketSize 16
bInterval 0
Language IDs: (length=4)
0409 English(US)

Hope you can make more out of it than I can.

Anne

According to this page it has experimental support in gphoto2, you may need to build gphoto2 from cvs to get it working though.
Have a look to see if gphoto has support for SMaL usb camera's.