gphoto2 - cannot claim usb device

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Sun Oct 9 19:55:43 EDT 2005


You should see more than that. What does lsusb show?

Frank Kumro wrote:

>The only thing that dmesg produced was
>
>usb 3-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
>
>On 10/9/05, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I would start like this, before doing anything else, plug the camera in,
>>turn it on and have a look at dmesg and your /var/log/messages, see if
>>it's got a problem on that level first.
>>
>>Frank Kumro wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi,
>>> I am running slackware 10.2 with the 2.6.13 kernel and gphoto2
>>>(2.1.6) libgphoto2 (2.1.6) libgphoto2_port (0.5.1). I have used this
>>>camera in fedora core (3,4) and could get my photos out of the camera
>>>so I know it works. However now in slackware when I run the command to
>>>get my pictures i get this error
>>>
>>>bash-3.00$ gphoto2 --auto-detect --get-all-files
>>>Model                          Port
>>>----------------------------------------------------------
>>>Canon PowerShot A40            usb:
>>>Canon PowerShot A40            usb:003,004
>>>
>>>*** Error ***
>>>An error occurred in the io-library ('Could not claim the USB
>>>device'): Could not claim interface 0 (Operation not permitted). Make
>>>sure no other program or kernel module (such as sdc2xx, stv680,
>>>spca50x) is using the device and you have read/write access to the
>>>device.
>>>*** Error (-53: 'Could not claim the USB device') ***
>>>
>>>The only other program running is gaim and gkrellm. I do not have it
>>>set up to automount anything. Where should I start when trying to
>>>figure out whats wrong? Any help would be great!
>>>
>>>--
>>>Frank
>>>Shenanigans!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>
>
>--
>Frank
>Shenanigans!!
>
>  
>



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