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Aiptek Pencam Trio Incompatibility

Posted: Nov 8, 2003, 9:03pm CST
Modified: January 7, 2004, 7:18:00 pm CST

I picked up an Aiptek Pencam Trio at my local Walmart.com (Every Day Low Wages!). Stay away from these—while gphoto supports some versions of them with the stv680 driver, the ones in stock at Walmart these days don't seem to be supported. I believe the chipset in these cameras has changed, along with the USB id's for vendor and product.

You can tell if you have an incompatible by looking at the id's reported by the kernel when you plug in the camera. If the output of dmesg looks like

hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-2, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x8ca/0x111) is not claimed by any active driver.

Even if you force these id's to be recognized as a Pencam Trio, you'll end up with an unspecified error in libgphoto2's I/O routines. Here is the relevant entry in /proc/bus/usb/devices.

I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 4 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=08ca ProdID=0111 Rev= 1.00
S: Product=Dual-Mode Digital Camera
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA

If anyone finds out how to get this working under Linux, I'd like to hear about it.

[ Posted by dast — linux, cameras ]

 

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