WebCam Cannon powershot A520

[NoOp]

On 09/26/2009 06:28 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 09/26/2009 05:19 PM, Chris Mohler wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> The A75 can indeed take video, so probably yet another wrong config
>>> setting. Well... this gives me something new to play with this weekend
>>> besides karmic :-)
>> 
>> Hmm - if you get a chance, would you see if ptpcam picks up your
>> camera  (plugged in and unmounted)?
>> 
>> I think the bug is actually in libptp2 (which provides the ptpcam
>> command) - it looks like libgphoto is handling off control to libptp
>> for the A520...
>> 
>> :P
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
> 
> It will have to wait until tomorrow... the A75 has been acting up &
> pulling it out for this exercise reminded me to take it apart to see if
> I could fix it. Chances are that it will work again (tomorrow), but not
> tonight :-)

I'm better at tiny screws than I thought... Camera is back together &
still working - only one small screw left over :-)


$ ptpcam
bash: ptpcam: command not found

$ apt-cache policy libptp2
W: Unable to locate package libptp2

$ apt-cache policy libptp2
W: Unable to locate package libptp2

I think you mean libgphoto2?
Lets try going for all:
$ sudo apt-get install libgphoto2*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting libgphoto2-port0 for regex 'libgphoto2*'
Note, selecting libgphoto2-dev for regex 'libgphoto2*'
Note, selecting libgphoto2port for regex 'libgphoto2*'
Note, selecting libgphoto2-2 for regex 'libgphoto2*'
Note, selecting libgphoto2-2-dev for regex 'libgphoto2*'
Note, selecting libgphoto2port-dev for regex 'libgphoto2*'
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libexif-dev libgphoto2-2-dev libusb-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libexif-dev libgphoto2-2-dev libusb-dev
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3191kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main libexif-dev
0.6.16-2.1ubuntu1 [158kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main libusb-dev 2:0.1.12-13 [38.8kB]
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main libgphoto2-2-dev
2.4.6-1ubuntu6~ppa1 [2995kB]
Fetched 3191kB in 31s (102kB/s)

Selecting previously deselected package libexif-dev.
(Reading database ... 383303 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libexif-dev (from .../libexif-dev_0.6.16-2.1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libusb-dev.
Unpacking libusb-dev (from .../libusb-dev_2%3a0.1.12-13_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libgphoto2-2-dev.
Unpacking libgphoto2-2-dev (from
.../libgphoto2-2-dev_2.4.6-1ubuntu6~ppa1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 added doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libexif-dev (0.6.16-2.1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libusb-dev (2:0.1.12-13) ...

Setting up libgphoto2-2-dev (2.4.6-1ubuntu6~ppa1) ...

$ ptpcam -L
bash: ptpcam: command not found

$ apt-cache policy libgphoto2-2
libgphoto2-2:
  Installed: 2.4.6-1ubuntu6~ppa1
  Candidate: 2.4.6-1ubuntu6~ppa1
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.6-1ubuntu6~ppa1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.4.2-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

$ gphoto2 -L
There is no file in folder '/'.

There is no file in folder '/store_00010001'.

There is no file in folder '/store_00010001/DCIM'.
There are 8 files in folder '/store_00010001/DCIM/106CANON'.
#1     IMG_0690.JPG               rd   684 KB 2048x1536 image/jpeg
#2     IMG_0691.JPG               rd   847 KB 2048x1536 image/jpeg
#3     IMG_0692.JPG               rd   714 KB 2048x1536 image/jpeg
#4     IMG_0693.JPG               rd   510 KB 2048x1536 image/jpeg
#5     IMG_0694.JPG               rd   574 KB 2048x1536 image/jpeg
#6     IMG_0695.JPG               rd   371 KB 2048x1536 image/jpeg
#7     IMG_0696.JPG               rd   590 KB 2048x1536 image/jpeg
#8     MVI_0697.AVI               rd  1582 KB video/x-msvideo
There is no file in folder '/store_00010001/MISC'.
There is no file in folder '/store_80000001'.

The avi is from a movie I captured manually from the camera to make sure
that feature/function is working.