Why doesn't kamera and gphoto2 detect my camera?

andrewwalker27 · l33t Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 660

I've got a Sony DSC-T1 digital camera connected by usb to my Gentoo AMD64 machine but no software seems to be able to find it!
When I plug it in, KDE automatically detects it as a usb memory stick and I can treat it like one with no problems but kamera says it can't detect it and gphoto2 doesn't manage either.

Here's dmesg output

usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Sony Model: Sony DSC Rev: 5.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdf: 63424 512-byte hdwr sectors (32 MB)
sdf: Write Protect is off
sdf: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sdf: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdf: 63424 512-byte hdwr sectors (32 MB)
sdf: Write Protect is off
sdf: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sdf: assuming drive cache: write through
sdf: sdf1
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdf
usb-storage: device scan complete
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4
usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Sony Model: Sony DSC Rev: 5.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdf: 63424 512-byte hdwr sectors (32 MB)
sdf: Write Protect is off
sdf: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sdf: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdf: 63424 512-byte hdwr sectors (32 MB)
sdf: Write Protect is off
sdf: Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
sdf: assuming drive cache: write through
sdf: sdf1
sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdf
usb-storage: device scan complete
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

And here's the ports

athlon64 fred # gphoto2 --list-ports
Devices found: 8
Path Description
--------------------------------------------------------------
serial:/dev/tts/0 Serial Port 0
serial:/dev/tts/1 Serial Port 1
serial:/dev/tts/2 Serial Port 2
serial:/dev/tts/3 Serial Port 3
usb: Universal Serial Bus
usb:002,003 Universal Serial Bus
usb:001,005 Universal Serial Bus
usb:001,002 Universal Serial Bus
athlon64 fred #

Here's what gphoto outputs

athlon64 fred # gphoto2 --port=path "usb:"
The port you specified ('') can not be found. Please specify one of the ports found by 'gphoto2 --list-ports' and make sure the spelling is correct (i.e. with prefix 'serial:' or 'usb:').*** Error (-5: 'Unknown port') ***

I also tried

athlon64 fred # gphoto2 --port=path "usb:001,002"
The port you specified ('') can not be found. Please specify one of the ports found by 'gphoto2 --list-ports' and make sure the spelling is correct (i.e. with prefix 'serial:' or 'usb:').*** Error (-5: 'Unknown port') ***

Am I doing something badly wrong? I'm running ~amd64.

HermanR

andrewwalker27 · l33t Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 660

Thanks, you're right (and I'm an idiot)!
Well I've tried the correct syntax and I get no response, not sure if that's good or bad!

fred@athlon64 ~ $ gphoto2 --port "usb:001,002"
fred@athlon64 ~ $

Still nothing on auto-detect

fred@athlon64 ~ $ gphoto2 --auto-detect
Model Port
----------------------------------------------------------
fred@athlon64 ~ $

Anyone got any ideas? I tried gtkam with the same results.

HermanR · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject:

I don't think I can help you further. Are you sure the problem has nothing to do with read/write rights? Did you try to access the camera as root?

I use Digikam (on Kde) to access my camera (a Canon).
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HermanR · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject:

Note the following from the Gentoo USB Guide:

andrewwalker27 · l33t Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 660

Thanks for the info, looks like I'll have to read my camera's manual!

Kabuto · l33t Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 701

Mmm.. yea what he said. Gphoto 2.1.6 or less does not support mass storage devices. The Sony can be switched to PTP mode which gphoto can then be used. Also digikam is supposed to support mass storage devices and only uses gphoto with cameras that gphoto is needed with.

Knute · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 362 Location: Fargo, ND

With it being set as a mass storage device, you should simply be able to cut and paste your pix with any file manager. All you'd have to do is mount /dev/sd0 (most likely) to some mount point and viola.

HTH
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HermanR · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject: