Kodak easyshare DX6440 digital camera

Cannot get it to work.
I use a standardinstallation of suse 8.2 and gphoto 2.1.1.

when typing "gphoto2 --list-ports"
It says: "usb: Universal Serial Bus"

When typing gphoto2 --auto-detect"
it only says: "Model Port"

When typing: "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera"
it says: "/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device"


When typing gphoto2 --debug

it says:

0.086991 main(2): gphoto2 2.1.1
0.130230 main(2): gphoto2 has been compiled with the following options:
0.179007 main(2): + gcc (C compiler used)
0.225629 main(2): + popt (for handling command-line parameters)
0.275955 main(2): + exif (for displaying EXIF information)
0.322953 main(2): + cdk (for accessing configuration options)
0.377488 main(2): + no aa (for displaying live previews)
0.430760 main(2): + jpeg (for displaying live previews in JPEG format)
0.489265 main(2): + readline (for easy navigation in the shell)
0.550593 main(2): libgphoto2 2.1.2dev5
0.608024 main(2): libgphoto2 has been compiled with the following options:
0.668818 main(2): + gcc (C compiler used)
0.723484 main(2): + EXIF (for special handling of EXIF files)
0.783883 main(2): + no ltdl (working around bugg libltdl, eh? :-)
0.842535 main(2): + /proc/meminfo (adapts cache size to memory available)
1.904464 main(2): libgphoto2_port 0.5.1
1.935578 main(2): libgphoto2_port has been compiled with the following options:
1.935627 main(2): + gcc (C compiler used)
1.935639 main(2): + USB (for USB cameras)
1.935651 main(2): + serial (for serial cameras)
1.935663 main(2): + resmgr (serial port access and locking)
1.935675 main(2): + no baudboy (serial port locking)
1.935687 main(2): + no ttylock (serial port locking)
1.935699 main(2): + no lockdev (serial port locking)
1.935710 main(2): + no ltdl (working around bugg libltdl, eh? :-)
1.936067 gp-camera(2): Freeing camera...
1.936098 gphoto2-port(2): Freeing port...
1.936137 libgphoto2/gphoto2-filesys.c(2): Clearing fscache LRU list...
1.936151 libgphoto2/gphoto2-filesys.c(2): fscache LRU list already empty
1.936163 gphoto2-filesystem(2): Internally deleting all folders from '/'...

Which is "greek" to me. ( :

What Distro are you running ? My DX4900 (Easyshare) works great with Mandrake 9.1, USBView and GTKam-0.1.10. All I have to do is open USBView and click the Easyshare docking station button, and you can see it being detected, then go into GTKam, click on the Camera menu>add camera>detect. It works great too, displays a thumbnail list of all my pictures which I can transfer over and then clear the digital camera memory.

I am running SUSE 8.2. Pretty much a standardinstallation. However, I have
reinstalled Gphoto while trying to get it to work.

I wouldn't concern yourself with GPhoto, but have you installed USBView and GTKam ? What you can try though is to click the button on the docking station and make sure it is being detected first using USBView. Once the system is detecting it and you know the camera is being detect, it is then a program issue vice hardware. GPhoto didn't really work with mine either, but you can use GTKam to retrieve the images from the camera, then just use Gimp to view and edit your pictures. I get output when I run the gphoto2 --auto-detect program but the actual software just doesn't work properly with our cameras. Just a thought to roll around. Here is the output I get.

# gphoto2 --auto-detect
Model Port
----------------------------------------------------------
Kodak DX4900 usb:

It is detected but the program itself is useless and will not detect the camera. That is why I use GTKam to actually transfer the pictures. With GTKam you will not have to mount anything, you just go into the program and run the autodetect, once your light is blinking on the Easyshare docking station. There should be packages available for SuSE.
http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/proj/gtkam/
These packages came on the Mandrake Distro CDs and all I had to do was install them. You might want to check your cds, or you should be able to find the SuSE packages online somewhere.

Thank you for this interesting info.
I am trying to use Digikam release 0.5.1 without success.

Tomorrow I will have time and I will try to find both USBView and GTKam and install them
and see if I can get it to work.

I would love to use linux instead of windoze when working with the
pictures. Because Gimp runs fast on my computer and I also like
the quick access to all menus with just a click with the right mousebutton.
Adobe photoshop is really slow on my windoze PC.

I use VMware 4.1 for anything that I absolutely have to do in windows. Like using Adobe Image ready, or Dreamweaver MX to edit my web site. Keep posting your results, and I will try to help you as much as possible. The big difference is that we are using different distributions of Linux.

When starting usbview I get an errormessage saying:

Cannot open the file /proc/bus/usb/devices
Verify that you have USB compiled into your kernel,
have the USB core modules loaded, and have the usbdevfs filesystem
loaded.


I have tried with typing this 2 commands:
modprobe usb-storage
modprobe usbcore

I have also the directory /proc/bus/usb/
But this directory is empty, and I cannot create the directory
"devices" here. I get an errormessage saying: Cannot create directory 'devices'

I an logged in as root.

Is something perhaps still missing in my installation?

I have mounted by typing this command:

mount -t usbdevfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera

Then I start usbview

I click the button "configure".

In the field "Location of usbdevfs file", I type in the path /mnt/camera/devices and click OK.

Now all information about my camera is there in USBView !!!

But I can still not get it to work in GTKam or Digikam.

Here is the commmands I have to type in:


modprobe usbcore
modprobe usb-storage
modprobe usb-uhci

mount -t usbdevfs /dev/sda1 /proc/bus/usb

I think it is the mount command that was wrong earlier.
Perhaps this mount path is a little unic for the
Suse 8.2 distribution.

My camera only works with GTKam.

My guess is that GTKam as default looks in the catalog
/proc/bus/usb.

It only works while i am logged in as root. Any tips on
how to make it work logged in as a user is appreciated.

Never surrender ( :