Canon A40 trouble

[Net Llama!]

On 06/13/2005 06:42 PM, Robert Hemus wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, i know zero about libranet and/or adminmenu.

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