-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 September 2003 13:07, fsanta wrote:

Maybe the permissions are set wrongly on your /dev/tty device. As far as I can remember you must have rw permissions to it. Have you tried to download the photos as root?

I just tried running digikam as root, and still get the same message: Camera Error : Failed to initialize camera. Please ensure camera is connected properly and turned on Could not transmit packet even after several retries. When I click on the camera icon to start downloading the pics, I can see a little 'arrow' in the window of the camera blinking on and off...like it's downloading the pics to my system, but after about 15 seconds, I get the above message. Thanks for the help, please don't give up yet if you have any other ideas. John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3rc2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/b3T1H5oDXyLKXKQRAif5AJwNvblU/s18hChiMPDZWlNFBHxBkwCeNuT5 MusQF334axvkRHhMu5i5KEw= =EHCc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----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: ************* 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'... 0.095320 gphoto2-port-serial(2): Trying to lock '/dev/ttyS32'... 0.097581 gphoto2-port-core(2): Loaded 'Serial Port 1' (serial:/dev/ttyS1) from 'libgphoto2_port_serial.so' , please run gphoto2 as follows: env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --port "/dev/ttyS1" --camera "Polaroid PDC 640" - -L --debug Please make sure there is sufficient quoting around the arguments. 0.132034 gp-camera(2): Freeing camera... 0.132225 gphoto2-port(2): Freeing port... 0.132408 gphoto2-port(2): Closing port... 0.133595 libgphoto2/gphoto2-filesys.c(2): Clearing fscache LRU list... 0.133943 libgphoto2/gphoto2-filesys.c(2): fscache LRU list already empty 0.134137 gphoto2-filesystem(2): Internally deleting all folders from '/'... john@linux:~> ***************** I sure hope you can make something of this, it all looks like Chinese to me. Thanks for any more help with this, I really do appreciate it. John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3rc2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/b3dPH5oDXyLKXKQRAuREAJ484z5WhANQVIPVhOMBI76GUo+U/wCeJhkh fkIQFyLpmGtiy7yAvCDrt+8= =6Klv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 September 2003 12:07, Marcus Meissner wrote: <snip>

Can you check if gphoto2 --list-cameras | grep 640 lists the PDC 640?

Otherwise I think that libgphoto2 was not compiled correctly.

Ciao, Marcus

Yessir, here's what comes up: john@linux:~> gphoto2 --list-cameras | grep 640 "Ixla:DualCam 640" (EXPERIMENTAL) "Polaroid:640SE" (EXPERIMENTAL) "Polaroid:Fun Flash 640" (EXPERIMENTAL) "Polaroid:PDC 640" "Sierra Imaging:SD640" john@linux:~> Seems like my camera should work fine, since it's not listed as '(EXPERIMENTAL)'. Pretty strange huh? I really appreciate the help Marcus, thank you. John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3rc2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/cnVMH5oDXyLKXKQRAq9QAJ0VjoYN3BPVU4lG+cr+xeSm/VTRywCfbPZR i/oiE0OgTdx2MgkZjbjji2Q= =pU5c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

In article <200309242355.40714.yonaton@tds.net>, John wrote:

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Can you check if gphoto2 --list-cameras | grep 640 lists the PDC 640? Otherwise I think that libgphoto2 was not compiled correctly. Yessir, here's what comes up: john@linux:~> gphoto2 --list-cameras | grep 640 "Ixla:DualCam 640" (EXPERIMENTAL) "Polaroid:640SE" (EXPERIMENTAL) "Polaroid:Fun Flash 640" (EXPERIMENTAL) "Polaroid:PDC 640" "Sierra Imaging:SD640" john@linux:~>

what's the output from: gphoto2 --autodetect ttfn nik