MulletRobZ Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 Greetings. A couple of days ago, I got a Kodak EasyShare CX6330 digital camera. However, I would like to receive more information on how to use these cameras in Linux. If you know how to use this or any digital camera in Linux, let me know, please. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzai Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 how strange i got the very same camera for xmass tell me if you have any luck and what to use i would like to know, my email is daniel.teed@gawab.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted December 27, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 27, 2003 I use gtkam. It was on my installation CDs. It works fine, so I haven't looked for other apps, though I am sure that many more exist. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted December 27, 2003 Author Share Posted December 27, 2003 Well I'll have to retry installing Linux because I can't get the Net to work on it for God knows why, LOL! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted December 27, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 27, 2003 Hmmm... There should be very few things that would require re-installing Linux. What happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 Plug in camera, modprobe usb-storage, mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera, play! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenthepostman Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 For me, the easiest program to use was gphoto2 which can be found at Gphoto. It supports your camera(Kodak EasyShare CX6330). It is a command line program but I think a GUI also exists for it. It?s fairly straightforward and I had little problems getting my camera to work with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nacs Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 I got an Olympus C-5000 and since I already had the USB mass storage module compiled in, just mounted it exactly as Mr. Static Void said. All Olympus cameras from what I've read can be mounted that easily (no gtkam/gphoto, etc, necessary). Your kodak may work that easily also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threetonesun Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 In Redhat, all I had to do was plug my camera into the USB port and run whatever the default camera program is (Gphoto?) Worked very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG-Cloud Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 (edited) Plug in camera, modprobe usb-storage, mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera, play! Should this work for any recent digital camera? My family just got a Fuji FinePix S3000 (very cheap on Boxing Day :D), and I want in on the fun everyone with windows boxen is having :p A google search on this turned up no results for my particular model. If you don't know if it'll work, will it hurt to try? Like ... I won't zap the firmware or anything if I try to get this working, will I? ;P EDIT: btw, my camera uses an xD memory card for storage, if that helps any =) EDIT #2: forgot to mention ... by the /dev/sda1 notation above, I'm assuming that this requires scsi emulation of some sort. Is there a way to bypass this? I currently have no scsi support in my kernel and would like to keep it that way if possible (using 2.6, btw) :p The usb-storage module jsut compiled without error, and modprobe'ing it (without the camera connected, my dad currently is using it) caused no errors. EDIT #3: sorry I'm tired. My camera is a Fuji FinePix 3800 Edited December 29, 2003 by MG-Cloud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nacs Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 If you don't know if it'll work, will it hurt to tryNo it won't hurt to try. ;)btw, my camera uses an xD memory card for storage So does my Olympus but I don't think it will affect anything really. forgot to mention ... by the /dev/sda1 notation above, I'm assuming that this requires scsi emulation of some sort Yes, it requires SCSI emulation (the module is called sd_mod in the 2.4 kernel) in addition to the USB mass storage support. I also don't like SCSI emulation but compiled it in to make it easy on myself. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted December 29, 2003 Author Share Posted December 29, 2003 Well I got my Internet and that kind of stuff working in Slackware 9.0 now so now I'll try installing the NVidia drivers and then I'll give the digital camera linking a shot. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted January 1, 2004 Author Share Posted January 1, 2004 Oh crap! I don't know how to get the scsi emulation to work for /dev/sda1, or would it be listed under a different device name? Like wouldn't it be /dev/usb/sda1 or something? Maybe you can tell me how to SCSI emulate these things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 usb-storage dosent use SCSI emulation. It is considered SCSI so all you need is SCSI disk support in your kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted January 2, 2004 Author Share Posted January 2, 2004 (edited) I can get GTKAM to run now (just had to change the prefix from /usr/local to /usr), but it can't detect the camera, even though I was sure I enabled USB support. As for the /dev/sda1, that doesn't appear to work neither and my Slackware 9.0 distro can support scsi disk drives! HELP! Or I'll have to retreat to that stupid Windows (again) ! And for more detail, the error message I got when I typed mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera after typing modprobe usb-storage is that /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device. Edited January 2, 2004 by Webgraph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 That doesn't sound like a modprobe error...sounds like a mount error. Am I wrong? Attach your full dmesg in a file please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted January 2, 2004 Author Share Posted January 2, 2004 There you go. It appears that the device keeps on getting disconnected at startup upon analyzing this file. Hmmm ... dmesg.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 It appears that your digital camera is not a generic USB mass storage device, but that is only my analysis of your dmesg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted January 2, 2004 Author Share Posted January 2, 2004 It appears that your digital camera is not a generic USB mass storage device, but that is only my analysis of your dmesg. So in other words, I need drivers for this camera, right? I checked the list on linux-usb.org and it appears that my camera is newer than the time the list has been generated. Perhaps that list is obsolete as the 2.6 kernel has been released. If I do need drivers, perhaps you can give me a link to the driver site or to another site which has the instructions on how to configure this camera? I even e-mailed Kodak with this question, but I doubt they'll do anything because they only support the gosh darn Windows and Macintosh. And if I need a kernel newer than 2.4.20, I'm screwed as I do not wish to risk installing a new kernel yet unless if I had no other choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted January 3, 2004 Author Share Posted January 3, 2004 Never mind. I finally figured out how to get the sonofagun to work! All I had to friggin' do was to copy the gphoto2 files to my /usr/local and it works really nicely. But thanks for all your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patch-rustem Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 (edited) Did you know that, PTP, Picture Transfer Protocol, is a standardized protocol mainly developped by Kodak whose goal is to provide a standard way to access digital camera? What's wrong with a nice simple USB mass storage device? This site here has more info and list the driver for your camera as: PTP (usb) gphoto2/ptp (usb) jphoto support PTP so it may help. MMPTP could be the easy option. Best of luck :rolleyes: Edited January 20, 2004 by patch-rustem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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