[gentoo-user] Digikam issue
Hi, First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed to help. The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the folders on my hard drive. When my camera is plugged in and I select "Import --> Camera", my camera appears in the list (not the specific model, but it recognizes that it is a Canon). However, the images on the camera are not displayed. I tried entering the camera manually. Doing this, it wants a mount point which defaults to /mnt/camera. If I then select "Import-->Camera", I get the message "Failed to connect to camera". The correct mount point was created. BTW, I AM a member of the plugdev group. As a side issue, if I assume that I need to mount the camera manually, I have always used the kwikdisk utility that is part of KDE. Despite the fact that this appears as a menu item, it won't load. Equery tells me that this belongs to the kdf package and I tried re-emerging kdf, but kwikdisk still fails to load. I am at a loss here and don't know what to do next. If anyone can help, I need to be "led by the nose". One would think that things would get easier to use in Linux, but that isn't the case here. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue
CJoeB wrote: Hi, First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed to help. The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the folders on my hard drive. When my camera is plugged in and I select "Import --> Camera", my camera appears in the list (not the specific model, but it recognizes that it is a Canon). However, the images on the camera are not displayed. I tried entering the camera manually. Doing this, it wants a mount point which defaults to /mnt/camera. If I then select "Import-->Camera", I get the message "Failed to connect to camera". The correct mount point was created. BTW, I AM a member of the plugdev group. As a side issue, if I assume that I need to mount the camera manually, I have always used the kwikdisk utility that is part of KDE. Despite the fact that this appears as a menu item, it won't load. Equery tells me that this belongs to the kdf package and I tried re-emerging kdf, but kwikdisk still fails to load. I am at a loss here and don't know what to do next. If anyone can help, I need to be "led by the nose". One would think that things would get easier to use in Linux, but that isn't the case here. Regards, Colleen Are you also in the USB group? My Canon is USB and I had to be in it for the camera to work. You may want to try running as root. If it works then, it's a permissions issue. If not, it may be hardware/software. Also, I use gtkam to get my pics. It works pretty well. I just happen to like the way I can do the names when I download. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue
On 05/27/10 15:33, Dale wrote: > CJoeB wrote: >> Hi, >> >> First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed >> to help. >> >> The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but >> some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. >> >> Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the >> folders on my hard drive. When my camera is plugged in and I select >> "Import --> Camera", my camera appears in the list (not the specific >> model, but it recognizes that it is a Canon). However, the images on >> the camera are not displayed. I tried entering the camera manually. >> Doing this, it wants a mount point which defaults to /mnt/camera. If I >> then select "Import-->Camera", I get the message "Failed to connect to >> camera". The correct mount point was created. BTW, I AM a member of >> the plugdev group. >> >> As a side issue, if I assume that I need to mount the camera manually, I >> have always used the kwikdisk utility that is part of KDE. Despite the >> fact that this appears as a menu item, it won't load. Equery tells me >> that this belongs to the kdf package and I tried re-emerging kdf, but >> kwikdisk still fails to load. >> >> I am at a loss here and don't know what to do next. If anyone can help, >> I need to be "led by the nose". >> >> One would think that things would get easier to use in Linux, but that >> isn't the case here. >> >> Regards, >> >> Colleen >> >> > > Are you also in the USB group? My Canon is USB and I had to be in it > for the camera to work. You may want to try running as root. If it > works then, it's a permissions issue. If not, it may be > hardware/software. Yes, I am in the usb group. Running as root produced the same result as described above. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue
On Friday 28 May 2010 06:34:18 CJoeB wrote: > Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the > folders on my hard drive. When my camera is plugged in and I select > "Import --> Camera", my camera appears in the list (not the specific > model, but it recognizes that it is a Canon). However, the images on > the camera are not displayed. I tried entering the camera manually. > Doing this, it wants a mount point which defaults to /mnt/camera. If I > then select "Import-->Camera", I get the message "Failed to connect to > camera". The correct mount point was created. BTW, I AM a member of > the plugdev group. Colleen, I had the same problem with my Canon G11. Digikam recognises it as a "Canon Powershot G11" but doesn't display images. I've left it installed, and installed another instance, just as plain old "USB PTP Class Camera", and it displays, downloads, deletes just fine. Bogo
Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue
Bogo Mipps wrote: On Friday 28 May 2010 06:34:18 CJoeB wrote: Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the folders on my hard drive. When my camera is plugged in and I select "Import --> Camera", my camera appears in the list (not the specific model, but it recognizes that it is a Canon). However, the images on the camera are not displayed. I tried entering the camera manually. Doing this, it wants a mount point which defaults to /mnt/camera. If I then select "Import-->Camera", I get the message "Failed to connect to camera". The correct mount point was created. BTW, I AM a member of the plugdev group. Colleen, I had the same problem with my Canon G11. Digikam recognises it as a "Canon Powershot G11" but doesn't display images. I've left it installed, and installed another instance, just as plain old "USB PTP Class Camera", and it displays, downloads, deletes just fine. Bogo I will add that gtkam uses PTP for mine as well. I read somewhere a long time ago that almost all Canon cameras are PTP. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:34 PM, CJoeB wrote: > Hi, > > First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed > to help. > > The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but > some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. > > Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the > folders on my hard drive. When my camera is plugged in and I select > "Import --> Camera", my camera appears in the list (not the specific > model, but it recognizes that it is a Canon). However, the images on > the camera are not displayed. I tried entering the camera manually. > Doing this, it wants a mount point which defaults to /mnt/camera. If I > then select "Import-->Camera", I get the message "Failed to connect to > camera". The correct mount point was created. BTW, I AM a member of > the plugdev group. Since you didn't say which model of camera you have, I can only guess. I have a Canon SD550 and it cannot be mounted as a mass storage device. It uses the PTP2 protocol. For a camera like mine my advice would be: In /etc/make.conf be sure you've defined CAMERAS with the drivers needed for your camera. My Canon SD550 uses the ptp2 driver, so my make.conf has: CAMERAS="ptp2" (to see a list of possible values, run "emerge -vp libgphoto2" and look at theoutput) If you didn't have it set, re-emerge libgphoto2 after changing it: emerge --oneshot libgphoto2 If that wasn't it, try to run digikam as root. If it works as root, it's probably a UDEV permissions issue. Find your camera/driver in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-libgphoto2.rules and edit the permissions so that your user can access it. If THAT doesn't work, try to use gphoto2 in a shell and see what it detects (or if it detects anything). This will give you better visibility about any error messages it may have. It will show detected cameras by doing this: gphoto2 --auto-detect If it sees your camera, try the other commands for listing and downloading images from it.
