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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 17:41:24 -0700
"David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Surprisingly, the latest version of 6-month-old gphoto2 and all of its
> dependencies, including libusb, compile for libc5. I made gphoto2 and
> supporting libraries into a package with makepkg, then I installed
> this package and Slackware 4.0 ldso.tgz on a brand-new BL3.40 fs.img.
> This package is tested working perfectly with a Kodak USB camera.
> Steven, do you want to test it with your serial camera to verify that
> the serial port support works? Ron, can you test your camera and
> report if it works?

    It works !       Nicely done, David.   :)

> To set it up for usage, download and install the 900K package:
> 
> (I want to verify that everyone can easily follow the directions and
> get it to work before I put it on my BL3 downloads page.)

   It works for me just fine with my Kodak EasyShare C300 USB camera, exactly 
the same as - or better - than my own dynamically compiled version for SW9.1.

> Also download and install ldso.tgz from SW40. I don't know exactly why
> this ldso package is needed, but I do know that without it, gphoto2
> doesn't work correctly.

    I had already added this to my HD version of BL3.4.

> In addition to the terse provided documentation, there is an official
> gphoto2 manual: http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/

   Might get that later, as in "when all else fails, read the instructions !".

> 
> For a USB camera (tested working with a Kodak):
> 
> 1) Insert USB modules. For BL3.40, get the modules from the BL3.40
> site. You need to insert usbcore.o, and also the one specific to your
> host controller (e.g. usb-uhci.o or usb-ohci.o).
> 2) After inserting usbcore.o, but before running gphoto2, mount usbdevfs:
> 
> mount -t usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
> 
> 3) Plug in and turn on camera.
> 4) Execute 'gphoto2 -P'. Again, this transfers everything to the
> current directory.

    Works exactly this way.

Regards,
        Ron

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