At 2:28 PM +0000 1/10/06, Paul F. Johnson wrote: >Hi, > >> It sees the device, but is unable to recognize it as storage. >> You may be out of luck accessing it as a mass storage device unless >> there are some drivers I don't know about. >> >> Have you tried gphoto2 to see if you can access the camera that way? > >I must admit that the last time I tried gphoto2 was quite a while back, >so I'll give that a go tonight. > >Is there anyway (other than opening it up) to find the chipset of a >camera like mine? You gave the vendor and product IDs as Vendor=0979 ProdID=0224. Google around for them. The numbers on the chips may not be of any use anyway. Your camera uses a vendor-specific protocol. Most cheap cameras don't use standard USB Class protocols, but use Vendor Specific protocols, and so require a different driver for each camera. If the camera came with a disk for MSWindows, that disk probably contains the required drivers for MSWindows. There probably aren't any vendor-supplied drivers for Linux, and the specification is usually a trade secret. (I used to work on MacOS USB camera drivers. I don't remember all of it. I haven't done any of this on Linux.) ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
