kodak dx3500 with docking station

Tried to get my kodak dx3500 with docking station using the control panel. The docking station is a thing the camera sits in for recharging and connects to the computer. In windoze you can press one button for recharging your batteries and getting your pictures.

I got an error message:

I select my camera and checked it but got bad parameters.Unable to initialize camera. Check your port settings and camera connectivity and try again

Anybody else have sucess with this?

Has anybody used the Kodak software with wine?

I am trying to follow along with this site.

http://jace.seacrow.com/tech/linux/usbcam

This is my fstab:
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,auto,showexec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto,umask=000 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda6 none swap defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0

Itried this and got:

root@1[pjharper]# mount /proc/bus/usb
[mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
root@1[pjharper]#

What am I doing wrong?

My fstab has the line for usb as:
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0

And I think you should press <enter> at the end of a new line.

solved the newline problem.

Here is the result:

root@1[pjharper]# cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=ef80
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=046d ProdID=0870 Rev= 1.00
S: Product=Camera
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr= 90mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 0 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 1 Ivl=16ms
I: If#= 0 Alt= 1 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=1023 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 1 Ivl=16ms


The camera is also detected in usbview. Says it is on 0.

Have you tried detecting your camera with gtkam?
K-menu -> Multimedia -> Viewers -> Gtkam

This issue seems to come up a lot. For me it works fine as long as I use "sudo gtkam". That doesn't seem to work for everyone though. Try it though...use "sudo gtkam" then click Camera -> Add Camera in the gtkam menu. Then click on the Detect button. It should work fine.

Result of latest cat /proc/bus/usb/:

root@reno:/# cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=ef80
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 6 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=040a ProdID=0500 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=Eastman Kodak Company
S: Product=KODAK DX3500 Digital Camera
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 2mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=06(still) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=16ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=046d ProdID=0870 Rev= 1.00
S: Product=Camera
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr= 90mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS= 0 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 1 Ivl=16ms
I: If#= 0 Alt= 1 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=01(Isoc) MxPS=1023 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 1 Ivl=16ms
root@reno:/# gphoto2 --auto-detect
Model Port
----------------------------------------------------------
Kodak DX3500 usb:

As you can see the Camera is there. I think in gphoto2 autodetect there should be a number by usb?


Thanks for replies so far.

Been a while since I have been playing with this. Thanks to
http://new2unix.no-ip.com/Linux-less...tal-camera.txt I can now get pictures from my camera in ghoto2 as root by typing gphoto2 -P

I can see the pictures and manipulate them with the Gimp.


gtkam doesn't seem to work in root or as a normal user.

I ran gphoto2 as a normal user and got this debugging output

pjharper@reno:~$ env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug -P
0.000062 main(2): ALWAYS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING LINES WHEN SENDING DEBUG MESSAGES TO THE MAILING LIST:
0.001393 main(2): gphoto2 2.1.4
0.002182 main(2): gphoto2 has been compiled with the following options:
0.003081 main(2): + gcc (C compiler used)
0.003887 main(2): + no popt (for handling command-line parameters)
0.004759 main(2): + exif (for displaying EXIF information)
0.006331 main(2): + cdk (for accessing configuration options)
0.007193 main(2): + no aa (for displaying live previews)
0.008045 main(2): + jpeg (for displaying live previews in JPEG format)
0.008934 main(2): + readline (for easy navigation in the shell)
0.009830 main(2): libgphoto2 2.1.4
0.010639 main(2): libgphoto2 has been compiled with the following options:
0.011534 main(2): + gcc (C compiler used)
0.012347 main(2): + EXIF (for special handling of EXIF files)
0.013243 main(2): + no ltdl (working around buggy libltdl, eh? :-)
0.014130 main(2): + no /proc/meminfo (adapts cache size to memory available)
0.015247 main(2): libgphoto2_port 0.5.1
0.016067 main(2): libgphoto2_port has been compiled with the following options:
0.016984 main(2): + gcc (C compiler used)
0.017792 main(2): + USB (for USB cameras)
0.018600 main(2): + serial (for serial cameras)
0.019422 main(2): + no resmgr (serial port access and locking)
0.020287 main(2): + no baudboy (serial port locking)
0.021128 main(2): + no ttylock (serial port locking)
0.021975 main(2): + no lockdev (serial port locking)
0.022829 main(2): + no ltdl (working around buggy libltdl, eh? :-)
0.026084 gphoto2-camera(2): Listing files in '/'...
0.027374 gphoto2-camera(2): Initializing camera...
0.028393 gphoto2-port(0): Could not find USB device (vendor 0x40a, product 0x500). Make sure this device is connected to the computer.
0.029750 context(0): An error occurred in the io-library ('Bad parameters'): Could not find USB device (vendor 0x40a, product 0x500). Make sure this device is connected to the computer.

*** Error ***
An error occurred in the io-library ('Bad parameters'): Could not find USB device (vendor 0x40a, product 0x500). Make sure this device is connected to the computer.
*** Error (-2: 'Bad parameters') ***

For debugging messages, please use the --debug option.
Debugging messages may help finding a solution to your problem.
If you intend to send any error or debug messages to the gphoto
developer mailing list <[email protected]>, please run
gphoto2 as follows:

env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --debug -P

Please make sure there is sufficient quoting around the arguments.