USB Digital Camera

dragonbite · #1 (**permalink**) 02-Jun-2009, 13:15

My son recently got a digital camera for his birthday and unfortunately Linux doesn't recognize it immediately.

I see it listed when I do #lsusb and I was able to install the crapware that comes with the mini-CD under Wine, but neither the local system or the applications under Wine are able to detect or connect to the camera.

What can I do to access the camera, whether native or through Wine? Does ndsiwrapper work with peripheral drivers?

I know about the alternatives of using a virtual machine but the problem with that is the system(s) only have 512 MB of RAM so VMs will be underpowered.

Do I have any options?

syampillai · #2 (**permalink**) 02-Jun-2009, 13:21

What is the product ID + vendor ID it shows in lsusb?

#3 (**permalink**) 02-Jun-2009, 13:27

> Do I have any options?

take the camera back, tell them it is defective (because it is, right?)

alternatively, have you tried it with digiKam? (it seems to work with
a large pile of cameras...and is available via YaST or zypper)

--
natural_pilot

caf4926 · #4 (**permalink**) 02-Jun-2009, 13:28

Most cameras of the usb nature with flash cards just get picked up. Digikam in kde4.2.3 is crazy good. No setting up, just plug in and away with my Kodak. I'm surprised it's not showing. Even if Digikam doesn't pick it up, I would have though at least you could access the memory card in Dolphin (assuming it uses a memory card)
Virtual Box would have been my other option.

syampillai · #5 (**permalink**) 02-Jun-2009, 13:43

If you are running KDE4, make sure that you do

Code:

zypper install kde4-digikam

Otherwise, it will install KDE3 version.

john_hudson · #6 (**permalink**) 02-Jun-2009, 13:49

If it is Canon or Nikon, it needs the gphoto2 backend which comes with gthumb, F-spot or digiKam. Otherwise, it should be detected by any software (Thanks to David Spencer of Bradford GNU/LUG for this advice).

syampillai · #7 (**permalink**) 02-Jun-2009, 15:43

After you plug in the camera, run digikam, go to its config option, choose camera and try the auto-detect option.

dragonbite · #8 (**permalink**) 02-Jun-2009, 21:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by syampillai

After you plug in the camera, run digikam, go to its config option, choose camera and try the auto-detect option.

Alright, I did that and got

Quote:

Failed to auto-detect camera.

Please check if your camera is turned on and retry or try
setting it manually.

[OK]

Here is some more information ...

Code:

drew@linux-ppij:~> lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0979:0227 Jeilin Technology Corp., Ltd
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 03f0:0701 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5300c/5370c
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

So the camera shows up as Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0979:0227 Jeilin Technology Corp., Ltd

The applications running via WINE also do not see any camera plugged into the USB port and thus cannot access it.

At least it looks like the USB cable should be alright if it at least "sees" the camera via #lsusb, right? Plus the camera lights up so it's getting power.

Any ideas?