If you aren't using one of the serial ports, disable it in BIOS (to free up
IRQ) & manually set the other one. Then try it.
Joseph Red
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mandrake Newbie Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 4:31 PM
Subject: [newbie] Help with digital camera.
> Hi. Okay, my fiance' bought a Polaroid 640 PDC Plus camera for me for
> Christmas. I downloaded Gphoto, and I'm trying to get it to work. The
camera
> takes pictures, I've got them stored on its memory stick. I hooked the
serial
> cable from the camera to 1 of 2 external serial ports I have on my 'Nix
box. I
> clicked on configure in Gphoto, and picked Polaroid PDC 640 (no plus model
is
> listed but this is so close?). I picked the first serial port listed
(ttyS0)
> which as reported by drakconf, turns out to be the one used by my internal
ISA
> Diamond modem. So I picked ttys01, and ttyS02, etc, etc, everything that
was
> listed in gphoto's drop down menu. Nothing has worked so far. When I pick
> camera, download index, it always says downloading index, then index done,
but
> I have a gray screen in gphoto with no pictures. In my BIOS, my 2 onboard
> serial ports are set to AUTO. From dmesg, here is how my serial ports are
> listed:
>
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) ditto (apparently, this is my internal modem)
> ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) ditto
>
> So...how do I get my camera to work with Gphoto? Thanks! ;-)
>
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