SOLVED: Mounting Creative PC-CAM 880 camera

[alloydog]

I it is udev, as there is a message at boot up that devfs is not supported but that kernel.
Though I have just been through both messages and dmesg but cannot find reference to either devfs or udev. Though I did find udev in /etc, /etc/init.d and /sbin, with devfs only in /etc.

I'm just going through the udev-FAQ now, but since I have left the camera at home, I won't be able to test anything intil the weekend...

[nelz]

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df -T dev

will show you which is in use.

[alloydog]

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:/# df -T dev
Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 reiserfs     4687468    989828   3697640  22% /
root@voyager:/# df -a
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1              4687468    989828   3697640  22% /
proc                         0         0         0   -  /proc
sysfs                  4687468    989828   3697640  22% /sys
devpts                 4687468    989828   3697640  22% /dev/pts
usbfs                        0         0         0   -  /proc/bus/usb
/proc/bus/usb                0         0         0   -  /proc/bus/usb
usbdevfs                     0         0         0   -  /proc/bus/usb
/dev/hda3              4882596    312648   4569948   7% /mnt/hda3

[nelz]

Soory, that should have read

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df -T /dev

[alloydog]

Just the same:

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:/# df -T /dev
Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 reiserfs     4687468    990128   3697340  22% /

[nelz]

According to this, you are running a static /dev, not udev or devfs. Which distro is this?

[alloydog]

BeatrIX
It uses the 2.6.7 kernel.

[nelz]

This is a very small distro, maybe it's missing whatever your camera needs. Have you tried a larger live CD distro, like Knoppix or Kanotix?

[alloydog]

Not for some time. I chose this one because it installed and ran on several old PCs (450 MHz AMD) quite nicley, with the minimum of fuss. I just recently tried Ubuntu 5.0.4, but that had problems with my graphics adapter, sound card and network adapter.

[nelz]

I meant to just try it as a live CD to see if it handles your camera. Then you can see what it uses and set up BeatriX the same way.

[alloydog]

Aha, I never thought of that

I am also going to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.12-whateverthecurrentversionis....

[alloydog]

SOLVED.

After installed an updated kernel, 2.6.12-6-686, I modified fstab by replacing the entry for usbdevfs with usbfs and adding the line:
/dev/sda1...../camera.....vfat.....defaults,noauto.....0.....0

Then after mounting /camera, I can see and browse to the proper directory within the camera.

[nelz]

It seems like the older kernel may not have had the support needed for this device.

[alloydog]

It isn't so much for the device, more for the filesystem - the camera is treated just like a USB mass storage device.

[nelz]

But you're mounting it with the vfat filesystem, that's hardly new.