On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 12:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 5/28/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an Argus DC1730 USB digital still camera. I want to be able to > > use it in Gentoo. I found a website > > (http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html) that said that the > > driver I would need is gphoto2/sq905. I emerged gphoto2 and I think I > > have the driver now. The website said that I would now have to mount > > the camera and gave a link to the Linux USB sub-system documentation, > > the Mass Storage Devices page. I read over it, but it made no sense to > > me. I've never really worked with hardware devices before. Can anyone > > walk me through mounting my camera? The Linux USB page said that I > > should now be able to see information about my camera > > in /proc/scsi/scsi, but the file command claims that it's an empty file. > > When I cat it, I get this: > > > > baby scsi # cat scsi > > Attached devices: > > > > I'm not even sure if the camera driver is loaded or not. I am using > > genkernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 if that matters... > > > > I don't do anything really fancy with mine. I just access pictures via > Gnome's desktop interface and copy photos off. > > I had to set up USB disk stuff in my kernels. With that in place when > I connect the camera and look at dmesg I'll see the scsi device that > got attached. (Usually sdb for me.) I think mount the camera using > something like > > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/camera > > and at that point I'm good to go. > > Good luck, > Mark >
I looked through the output of dmesg but didn't see any references to a digital camera. I'm not even sure the driver is loaded. How do I load the driver? It's located at: /usr/lib/gphoto2/2.1.4/libgphoto2_sq905.so /usr/lib/gphoto2/2.1.4/libgphoto2_sq905.la /usr/lib/gphoto2/2.1.4/libgphoto2_sq905.a -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
