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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 September 2003 14:35, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:35:52AM -0500, John wrote:
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Hi list,
I posted this to the NG, but my news server is down, and I couldn't find it on google or any other news servers. I've got a Polaroid PDC 640 digital camera. It's connected by serial cable to the PC. Using digikam and gtkam, I can't get it to communicate with the camera for some reason. It has a 2MB memory card, but since it's not a USB connection, I don't know what to do.
What does: gphoto2 --port /dev/ttyS0 --camera "Polaroid Fun Flash 640" -L --debug show?
Is /dev/ttyS0 accessible?
Ciao, Marcus
It's using ttyS1 (my external modem is on ttyS0). I substituted /dev/ttyS0
with /dev/ttyS1 and "Fun Flash" with "Polaroid PDC 640", and this is what I
got with running your command:
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john@linux:~> gphoto2 --port /dev/ttyS1 --camera "Polaroid PDC 640" -L --debug
0.000121 main(2): ALWAYS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING LINES WHEN SENDING DEBUG
MESSAGES TO THE MAILING LIST:
0.000538 main(2): gphoto2 2.1.1
0.000696 main(2): gphoto2 has been compiled with the following options:
0.000878 main(2): + gcc (C compiler used)
0.001040 main(2): + popt (for handling command-line parameters)
0.001216 main(2): + exif (for displaying EXIF information)
0.001389 main(2): + cdk (for accessing configuration options)
0.001563 main(2): + no aa (for displaying live previews)
0.001734 main(2): + jpeg (for displaying live previews in JPEG format)
0.001916 main(2): + readline (for easy navigation in the shell)
0.002102 main(2): libgphoto2 2.1.2dev5
0.002263 main(2): libgphoto2 has been compiled with the following options:
0.002472 main(2): + gcc (C compiler used)
0.002646 main(2): + EXIF (for special handling of EXIF files)
0.002832 main(2): + no ltdl (working around bugg libltdl, eh? :-)
0.003019 main(2): + /proc/meminfo (adapts cache size to memory available)
0.003222 main(2): libgphoto2_port 0.5.1
0.003395 main(2): libgphoto2_port has been compiled with the following
options:
0.003590 main(2): + gcc (C compiler used)
0.003763 main(2): + USB (for USB cameras)
0.003934 main(2): + serial (for serial cameras)
0.004111 main(2): + resmgr (serial port access and locking)
0.004295 main(2): + no baudboy (serial port locking)
0.004474 main(2): + no ttylock (serial port locking)
0.004653 main(2): + no lockdev (serial port locking)
0.004831 main(2): + no ltdl (working around bugg libltdl, eh? :-)
0.005056 main(2): Processing 'port' option ('/dev/ttyS1')...
0.005269 main(2): Ports must look like 'serial:/dev/ttyS0' or 'usb:', but
'/dev/ttyS1' is missing a colon so I am going to guess what you mean.
0.005544 main(2): Guessed port name. Using port 'serial:/dev/ttyS1' from now
on.
0.005774 gp-port-info-list(2): Loading io-drivers from
'/usr/lib/gphoto2_port/0.5.1'...
0.006247 gphoto2-port-core(2):
'/usr/lib/gphoto2_port/0.5.1/libgphoto2_port_serial.la' is not a library
(/usr/lib/gphoto2_port/0.5.1/libgphoto2_port_serial.la: invalid ELF header)
0.007924 gphoto2-port-serial(2): Trying to lock '/dev/ttyS0'...