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zakl
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 Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 7:38 pm Post subject: How-to: Canon S50 Digital camera and Gentoo! |
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After some playing around and trying different things and searching forums, this is how I got my Canon S50 digital camera to work. This method will work for a LOT of other digital cameras too, check out http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php to see if your camera is supported.
First, I built my kernel(MM-sources 2.6.0 Beta 6 R2) with the proper options. You will need to enable(as built-in or module, I use built-in):
USB support
USB Mass Storage(not sure if it's needed for this cam or not, but it's enabled so I listed it)
Second, you need GTKam, GPhoto2, and last, libgphoto2 >= 2.1.2. I emerged the latest version myself. As of now, portage does not emerge the 2.1.2 version of libgphoto2, so you will need to do it manually since it's masked.
| Code: | # emerge gtkam gphoto2
# cd /usr/portage/media-libs/libgphoto2/
#emerge libgphoto2-2.1.2-r1.ebuild
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Start gtkam as root (or refer to the link in the post below which goes to the gphoto USB permissions how-to)
Click Camera --> Add Camera --> click the drop down menu, and select your camera --> click ok, and your set.
Your camera will appear in the left window pane of gtkam, and you can navigate the menu's there to see your pics.
Have fun!
By the way, through reading the online doc's for gphoto2, I found that there are also two 3rd party front-ends(gtkam) for gphoto2... flPhoto, and digikam. I haven't tried these, but I am going to just to see how they are.
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Ian
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 1:21 am Post subject: |
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I'm going to try this with my S45, I assume it'll work.
If not, I can always keep using my USB compact flash reader  .
To the USB write permissions, ripped from my fstab...
| Code: | | /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat noauto,rc,users,rw,gid=users,uid=ian 0 0 |
You want, specifically, "users" (allows the group "users" to mount/umount), "gid=users" (sets group to "users") and "uid=<username here>" (sets user). That's very important, for any Fat32 filesystem, otherwise the permissions will default to root. |
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Ian
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 2:13 am Post subject: |
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Hmm, doesn't appear to work, unless I missed something.
Gives an error about not finding folders in '/', and "could not initalize camera".
Any ideas? |
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zakl
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:05 am Post subject: |
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I got that same exact error when I ran gtkam as a non-root user. After I ran gtkam as root, it worked like a charm.
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Ian
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I tried running that as root, got the same errors, again.
What I'm confused about, is how does it mount the camera, and where does it mount the camera? |
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daen1543
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Ian wrote: | Yeah, I tried running that as root, got the same errors, again.
What I'm confused about, is how does it mount the camera, and where does it mount the camera? |
I have the same camera (S45), and the latest ~x86 version of [lib]gphoto is broken. Try the latest x86 release. Works without a problem for me. Gphoto2 doesn't "mount" the camera anywhere, it's sort of like ftp. I'd say it's not very useful from the command line - if you're a KDE user, I recommend the camera:/ Kioslave. (compile kdegraphics with gphoto2 in USE). |
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gitarretyp
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 1:45 am Post subject: |
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I also have an s50 and tried following zakl's instructions exactly; however, when i plug the camera in, i get: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4a9/0x3077) is not claimed by any active driver.
Susequently, gtkam can not find the camera.
I'm using gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r7 and have usb support and usb mass storage support compiled in (i have not enabled any of the options under usb mass storage). Any ideas? |
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daen1543
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:03 am Post subject: |
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| gitarretyp, as stated above, I had the same problem with gphoto2-2.1.2 and libgphoto2-2.1.2-r1. Downgrading to gphoto2-2.1.1-r1 and libgphoto2-2.1.1-r2 fixed the problem. |
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gitarretyp
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the suggestion, but 2.1.1 doesn't even support the s50. |
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daen1543
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 6:03 am Post subject: |
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With gphoto2-2.1.1, could you try selecting PTP as the communications protocol on the camera and then
1) try gphoto2 --auto-detect -v
2) try gphoto2 --camera "USB PTP Class Camera" -v ? |
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jaska
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | >>> emerge (1 of 2) media-libs/libgphoto2-2.1.2-r1 to /
>>> md5 src_uri libgphoto2-2.1.2.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking libgphoto2-2.1.2.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/libgphoto2-2.1.2-r1/work
* Applying libgphoto2-2.1.2-norpm.patch... [ ok ]
* Applying libgphoto2-2.1.2-canon.patch...
* Failed Patch: libgphoto2-2.1.2-canon.patch!
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* Include in your bugreport the contents of:
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* /var/tmp/portage/libgphoto2-2.1.2-r1/temp/libgphoto2-2.1.2-canon.patch-17819.out
!!! ERROR: media-libs/libgphoto2-2.1.2-r1 failed.
!!! Function epatch, Line 354, Exitcode 0
!!! Failed Patch: libgphoto2-2.1.2-canon.patch!
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I am losing my mind over this... Any suggestions?[/quote] |
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Daren
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: How-to: Canon S50 Digital camera and Gentoo! |
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| zakl wrote: | | Start gtkam as root (for now I haven't figured out how to set-up non-root write access permissions for USB, if you know how to do this, please post) |
Hi,
With regard to the non-root issue, there is a walkthrough in the gphoto2 faq. - http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html - works like a charm.
HTH
Daren |
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tojo
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, thanks! 
I have canon powershot a70 and got this working like a snap. I commented out the canon patch from libgphoto2 ebuild. |
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zakl
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| jaska wrote: | | Quote: | >>> emerge (1 of 2) media-libs/libgphoto2-2.1.2-r1 to /
>>> md5 src_uri libgphoto2-2.1.2.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking libgphoto2-2.1.2.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/libgphoto2-2.1.2-r1/work
* Applying libgphoto2-2.1.2-norpm.patch... [ ok ]
* Applying libgphoto2-2.1.2-canon.patch...
* Failed Patch: libgphoto2-2.1.2-canon.patch!
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* Include in your bugreport the contents of:
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* /var/tmp/portage/libgphoto2-2.1.2-r1/temp/libgphoto2-2.1.2-canon.patch-17819.out
!!! ERROR: media-libs/libgphoto2-2.1.2-r1 failed.
!!! Function epatch, Line 354, Exitcode 0
!!! Failed Patch: libgphoto2-2.1.2-canon.patch!
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I am losing my mind over this... Any suggestions? |
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Are you using the test kernel? I have found for some reason, a LOT of software fails to compile when I am running my MM-Sources 2.6.x test kernel. I don't know why, and haven't found a solution yet, but if you are running the developement kernel (2.6.x) then you could try booting back to an old 2.4.x stable kernel while you emerge the programs.
Update: I upgraded my kernel from MM 2.6.0 test6 R2 to the newer R4 kernel, and now I can compile everything like a charm. I'm installing the new Beta7-R1 release right now to see how it runs =D These new kernels are pretty darn cool.
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knoxville
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| Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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can anyone help me with this? when i emerge i get this error
| Code: | make[2]: *** [gtkam-chooser.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
gtkam-clock.c: In function `gtkam_clock_destroy':
gtkam-clock.c:66: warning: implicit declaration of function `gtk_timeout_remove'gtkam-clock.c: In function `on_forward_pressed':
gtkam-clock.c:256: warning: implicit declaration of function `gtk_timeout_add'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gtkam-0.1.10-r1/work/gtkam-0.1.10/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gtkam-0.1.10-r1/work/gtkam-0.1.10'
make: *** [all] Error 2
!!! ERROR: media-gfx/gtkam-0.1.10-r1 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 51, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
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thanks in advance |
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phreaqy
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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I get the same error as him, does anybody know hot to fix it?
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