On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 05:22:42PM -0500, stuart wrote: > On 05/22/2013 05:08 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 08:50:51AM -0500, stuart wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Not sure what to expect here. I grabbed the source and dependencies > >>to compile entangle on a Ubuntu system. I ended up having to make > >>at least 1 symbolic link to get things to configure/compile. That > >>done I connected a Canon A80 and nothing happened. > >What do you mean by 'nothing happened' & what exactly did you do > >with entangle ? Did the USB device appear to 'lsusb' command > >line tool ? Did gphoto2 --auto-detect show anything ? if you > >do 'FIle -> Connect Camera' display any cameras when yours > >is connected ? > > The output of lsusb before and after the camera was connected looked > the same. I didn't try the auto-detect of gphoto2, instead I listed > out the possible cameras and cut-n-pasted the exact match form the > list to the gphoto2 command specifying the A80. Not sure if I did > this for the A530 - to be honest. The > entangle->file->connect_camera did not find anything. > > > > >>But, I'll have to add that a "tail -f /var/log/syslog" showed no > >>activity either when connecting and disconnecting the A80's USB > >>port. > >> > >>Next I installed the entangle Fedora package on a Fedora 18 box. > >>Same thing. So I tried a Canon A530. Same thing. > >> > >>Is there something about Canon's and Linux that just don't mix? How > >>odd is that. > >The A80 is supported by libgphoto2. The A530 is not supported by > >any sofware, since Canon intentionally cripple the firmware > > > > http://www.gphoto.org/doc/remote/ > > > >Daniel > > Oh, that is interesting. But, I think if you ask gphoto2 to list > cameras it does have an entry for a Canon A530. I should also add > that I think the A530 was running CHDK instead of its own firmware. > At least until I pulled the SDCard out.
It can detect the a530 and download files, but you won't get remote capture or config settings. > > I'm still confused by the Linux boxes not logging any activity when > the USB is connected to the cameras. That troubles me. Yep, if it doesnt' show up with 'lsusb' then the problem is very likely with the camera, rather than Linux or entangle. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ Entangle-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/entangle-devel
