[Digikam-users] Problem downloading photos from Olympus D-300L

[Edward Dunagin]

try gphoto2.. it will download from an apt-get

--- lhouk at lesliehouk.com wrote:

> I have an Olympus D-300L digital camera, which uses the serial port
> to
> communicate with the computer.  When I boot into Win2K and run the
> software that came with the camera, a program called C-W95.exe, the
> camera
> works perfectly, and I can download photos with no problems.
> 
> When I boot into Xandros (Desktop OS 3.0 Standard, build 2004-12-06
> 12:04,
> all "latest updates" from Xandros Networks installed) and run digikam
> (0.7.0-cvs, using KDE 3.3.0 and Kipi library version 0.1.0-cvs), it
> is
> able to contact the camera on /dev/ttyS0 and list the files in /,
> showing
> thumbnails of the photos correctly.  However, when I try to download
> the
> photos, it always fails on the first photo, gives the error message
> "Failed to download file P1010001.JPG", and aborts the download
> process. 
> It doesn't matter whether I try "Download all" or "Download selected
> photo".
> 
> I don't know if it is significant, but the Windows program generates
> files
> named PIC00001.jpg, PIC00002.jpg, etc., instead of P1010001.JPG,
> P1010002.JPG, etc.  I tried telling digikam to use it's own filenames
> with
> the prefix PIC, but it still tried to download P1010001.JPG from the
> camera, producing the same error.
> 
> For debugging purposes, I download the program camediaplay from
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/graphics/camediaplay, which also
> failed.
>  The output from two runs with the -d and -D debugging options are:
> 
>     $ camediaplay -D -v -a /dev/ttyS0
>     ./../src/main.c:291: baudrate set to 19200
>     ./../src/main.c:489: got 0x01 while waiting ACK(0x06)
>     ./../src/main.c:911: ACK err in camedia_setspeed
>     ./../src/main.c:291: baudrate set to 19200
>     ./../src/main.c:563: got framing error
>     ./../src/main.c:669: getpacket err in camedia_getint(01 10)
>     ./../src/main.c:1057: getint err in camedia_getnpicts
>     ./../src/main.c:570: illegal packet received: 0x00
>     ./../src/main.c:669: getpacket err in camedia_getint(01 0a)
>     ./../src/main.c:1063: getint err in camedia_getnpicts
>     error getting npicts
> 
>     $ camediaplay -d -v -a /dev/ttyS0
>     cpu>camera: 00
>     camera>cpu: 00
>     cpu>camera: 1b 53
>     cpu>camera: 06 00
>     cpu>camera: 00 11 02 00 00 00
>     cpu>camera: 13 00
>     camera>cpu: 15
>     cpu>camera: 1b 43
>     cpu>camera: 02 00
>     cpu>camera: 01 10
>     cpu>camera: 11 00
>     camera>cpu: ff
>     cpu>camera: 1b 43
>     cpu>camera: 02 00
>     cpu>camera: 01 0a
>     cpu>camera: 0b 00
>     camera>cpu: 00
>     error getting npicts
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on what the problem might be, and what I
> can
> try to get digikam to work with my camera?  Thanks in advance to all
> who
> respond.
> 
> Leslie
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Edward M Dunagin
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406.570-0992
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