Canon A40 trouble

[Robert Hemus]

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 19:35, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 06/12/2005 06:32 PM, Robert Hemus wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 18:04, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> Hash: SHA1
> >> 
> >> Robert Hemus wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 11:56, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > 
> >> >>
> >> >> Robert Hemus wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 06:50, Tom Wilson wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 22:00, Robert Hemus wrote:
> > 
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> 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
> >> >
> >> >
> > 
> >> >>
> >> >> - -- Matthew Carpenter matt at eisgr.com
> >> >> http://www.eisgr.com/
> > 
> >> 
> >> 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)
Lonnie, I used the LibraNet Adminmenu.  It opened the tar file and
seemed to install all of the files in /home/bobhemus instead of /usr/lib
and /usr/share/.  If Imove the tarball to /usr/ will the Adminmenu then
put in the /usr files?
Bob