Argus DC-1510
Posts: 26
Evening,
Friend left me a small pencam but as usual, no driver disk. Digicam recognizes it as a Argus DC-1510, but camstream does not see it at all, XP (shudder) says it's a "USB Digital Still Cam". I have googled the Argus and found lots of info, most very old and all of it usless. Has anyone had any experience with this camera?
Thanks,
B
you can try gphoto2
Posts: 256
you can try
gphoto2 --get-all-files
and see if it works prehaps do this in a terminal
samuelmp@1[~]$ gphoto2 --get-all-files
*** Error ***
Could not detect any camera
*** Error (-105: 'Unknown model') ***
For debugging messages, please use the --debug option.
Debugging messages may help finding a solution to your problem.
If you intend to send any error or debug messages to the gphoto
developer mailing list
gphoto2 as follows:
env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --get-all-files
Please make sure there is sufficient quoting around the arguments.
samuelmp@1[~]$
Re: Argus DC-1510
Posts: 50
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If your StickCam is like mine, it has no provision for a memory card---and hence, apparently, Konqueror doesn't see it as a storage device (and can't mount it).
Plug the camera into the USB port. Because the camera is so thin, it has a USB female type A connector--meaning you need a male-A to male-A cable
In Konq > InfoCenter > USB, you can see information about the device, including the VendorID and ProductID. These are unique to each CHIP set: many vendors may use the same chip set and hence different brands will have the same VendID/ProdID. The InfoCenter recognizes these (for the StickCam) as "Che-ez! Snap/iClick Tiny VGA Digital Camera".
In Konq > ControlCenter > Peripherals > Cameras, you can set-up this camera---it may be detected as the "Argus DC-1510". If not, set it up that way. (I believe that there are entries for Che-ez! Snap and iClick Tiny, but chosing them will, if I remember correctly, still call it an Argus DC-1510.)
Take some pictures (before or during this set-up). Go into Konqueror, erase whatever is on the URL-line (probably "file:/home/username"), and type-in "camera:/", and press enter. There should be a file called "Argus DC-1510"; click on it; you should now see several files, including your pictures.
These cameras have a VendorID=0x2770, ProductID=0x9120, and use the sq905 drivers. Konq uses a generic sq905 driver (look at the information in the ContrlCentr > Peripherals > Cameras > Argus DC-1510 for this info); I think a full-blown sq905 driver would allow the camera to be used as a webcam--->live display on your monitor. I have not been able to find this driver ReadyMade---I have the files, but to compile it, I need the kernel source files: my connection is less than 20KB/s---it would take hours to download the files!!
I hope this has been of help.
the_captn