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Monday May 07, 2007

Rebel XTi/400D with gphoto on Solaris

Having got a Rebel XTi, aka 400D and only having Solaris on me laptop. What to do ?


Thankfully gphoto and gktam are bundbled with the latest . Still needs tweaks to
get working.





# update_drv -a -m '* 0666 root sys' -i '"usb4a9,3110"' ugen

\begin{reedit}


We don't need this update_drv, talking to some of the usb folks. I ran:





# update_drv -d -i '"usb4a9,3110"' ugen

to remove the entries from the system (i.e. /etc/driver_aliases and bits).
Attached the camera again and it magically attached fine and could download the pics
just fine again.

So no need for update_drv(1M) any more!


\end{reedit}


That got the camera hooked up with the ugen(7D) driver. Now to get gphoto working.
For some reason this was needed:



#

# cd /usr/lib/iconv

# cp UCS-2%646.so 646%UCS-2-INTERNAL.so

# cp UCS-2%646.so UCS-2-INTERNAL%646.so

#

Now I can use gphoto to download the pictures from my Canon Rebel Xti (aka 400D).

Posted at 09:29AM May 07, 2007 by smg in General  |  Comments[5]

Comments:

Hey! Great job! I did the 2 simple cps, and my long awayted to work under solaris Kodak dx4530 finally works like a charm with gphoto2, as it used to work under openbsd! tnx tnx tnx again! Those were my errors: http://rafb.net/p/1twhdB26.txt and http://www.sickness.it/gphoto2solarisdx4530.txt Maybe this fix should be submitted on the desktop community or the usb project on opensolaris.org? I think it could be helpful to a lot of people!

Posted by sickness on May 07, 2007 at 01:51 PM IST #

I connected a Maxxum 7D to Solaris, which was identified as a storage device. I have to check gphoto2, since i have just used gimp to work with the pictures.

Posted by Knut (TM) on May 07, 2007 at 04:18 PM IST #

you were lucky enough to have a camera which is seen as a standard usb storage device... my kodak only works in "ptp" mode so all this iconv thing was needed...

Posted by sickness on May 07, 2007 at 05:38 PM IST #

Thanks 'sickness' :) I found/fixed the issue by using truss, saw it trying to open those iconv files. I've yet to get gtkam going with it, though I haven't delved too much into it. I'm too much of a command line fan.

As for logging a bug, theres already one: 6536628 gtkam doesn't work with ptp cameras anymore.

And its been fixed in later versions of gphoto, as seen here. and here.

Looks like we'll see it fixed in the next Solaris Express release.

Posted by smg on May 07, 2007 at 09:26 PM IST #

We don't need this update_drv, talking to some of the usb folks. I ran: 

# update_drv -d -i '"usb4a9,3110"' ugen
to remove the entries from the system (i.e. <tt>/etc/driver_aliases</tt> and bit s). Attached the camera again and it magically attached fine and could download the pics just fine again. So no need for update_drv(1M) any more!

Posted by smg on May 09, 2007 at 07:19 AM IST #

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