Canon A40 trouble

[Net Llama!]

On 06/12/2005 06:32 PM, Robert Hemus wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 18:04, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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>> Robert Hemus wrote:
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>> > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 11:56, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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>> >> Robert Hemus wrote:
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>> >>> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 06:50, Tom Wilson wrote:
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>> >>>> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 22:00, Robert Hemus wrote:
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>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> Bob,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Plug the camera in and then just run dmesg by itself. The
>> >>>> last few lines of output give you the information about the
>> >>>> camera. Go ahead and post the output if you wish.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Tom Wilson McSwain Carpets 513.771.1400 x4433
>> >
>> >
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>> >>
>> >> - -- Matthew Carpenter matt at eisgr.com
>> >> http://www.eisgr.com/
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>> 
>> What I see is nothing to indicate that the driver is loaded.  This
>> could be either of the previous issues I mentioned.  If someone will
>> tell you what module that camera requires, perhaps you can manually
>> load it and find out what's wrong.  You can check the validity of
>> hotplug and your kernel.  RPM's:   rpm -V <package>
>> 
>> - --
>> Matthew Carpenter
>> matt at eisgr.com                          http://www.eisgr.com/
> 
> 
> OK, gonna show my ignorance.  Went where Kurt told me, downloaded
> libgphoto2.2.1.6rc2.tar.gz.  Downloaded it into ~/.  Wrong, me thinks? 
> Opened Adminmenu and typed in libgphoto2.2.1.rc62.tar.gz. and it was put
> in ~/, not in /usr/share/.  How do I correct this and what will I need
> to do to to the lingphoto2 there now?  Move libgphoto2.2.1.6rc2.tar.gz
> to /Usr and then run the Adninmenu, again?
> 
> Ah, what would a simple soul, as I, do without all of you folks help?

Whast you downloaded you need to compile from source.  Right now, its 
not going to do anything for you in its tarball form.

Most likely, you need to untar/gunzip it, then run:
./configure
make
make install (as root)

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