[gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

[gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

[Andrew Gaydenko]

digikam (during this KDE3-to-KDE4 epoch) can not be installed (see Gentoo bugs 
related to 'digikam'), gtkam shows PTP I/O error... Is there other software I 
have missed? I have Canon ixus 40 camera.

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

[Dale]

Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> digikam (during this KDE3-to-KDE4 epoch) can not be installed (see Gentoo bugs 
> related to 'digikam'), gtkam shows PTP I/O error... Is there other software I 
> have missed? I have Canon ixus 40 camera.
>
>
>   

Does one of these in Konqueror work?

media:/camera

system:/media/camera

It doesn't here either but it is most likely miss configured here since
I use gtkam.  You may want to try gtkam if all else fails.  Put
CAMERAS="canon ptp2" in your make.conf and it should work.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

[Andrew Gaydenko]

On Saturday 17 January 2009 21:52:19 Dale wrote:
> Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> > digikam (during this KDE3-to-KDE4 epoch) can not be installed (see Gentoo
> > bugs related to 'digikam'), gtkam shows PTP I/O error... Is there other
> > software I have missed? I have Canon ixus 40 camera.
>
> Does one of these in Konqueror work?
>
> media:/camera
>
> system:/media/camera

Have tried with krusader ('camera:/') - just got infinite nested subdirs with 
the camera name.

>
> It doesn't here either but it is most likely miss configured here since
> I use gtkam.  You may want to try gtkam if all else fails.  Put
> CAMERAS="canon ptp2" in your make.conf and it should work.

Already have.

>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

[Dale]

Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> On Saturday 17 January 2009 21:52:19 Dale wrote:
>   
>> It doesn't here either but it is most likely miss configured here since
>> I use gtkam.  You may want to try gtkam if all else fails.  Put
>> CAMERAS="canon ptp2" in your make.conf and it should work.
>>     
>
> Already have.
>
>   
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>     
>
>   

Does gtkam not work either?  If not, you may have something other than
software problems.  It may be something not recognizing  your camera for
some reason.  May want to check your logs for errors.

I'm not using KDE 4 but gtkam should work regardless since it is not KDE.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

[Andrew Gaydenko]

On Saturday 17 January 2009 22:38:43 Dale wrote:
> Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 January 2009 21:52:19 Dale wrote:
> >> It doesn't here either but it is most likely miss configured here since
> >> I use gtkam.  You may want to try gtkam if all else fails.  Put
> >> CAMERAS="canon ptp2" in your make.conf and it should work.
> >
> > Already have.
> >
> >> Dale
> >>
> >> :-)  :-)
>
> Does gtkam not work either?  If not, you may have something other than
> software problems.  It may be something not recognizing  your camera for
> some reason.  May want to check your logs for errors.

In fact, there are many googling results wrt this gtkam error message - too 
many to identify the problem reason :-) 

>
> I'm not using KDE 4 but gtkam should work regardless since it is not KDE.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

[Dale]

Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> On Saturday 17 January 2009 22:38:43 Dale wrote:
>   
>> Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
>>     
>>> On Saturday 17 January 2009 21:52:19 Dale wrote:
>>>       
>>>> It doesn't here either but it is most likely miss configured here since
>>>> I use gtkam.  You may want to try gtkam if all else fails.  Put
>>>> CAMERAS="canon ptp2" in your make.conf and it should work.
>>>>         
>>> Already have.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Dale
>>>>
>>>> :-)  :-)
>>>>         
>> Does gtkam not work either?  If not, you may have something other than
>> software problems.  It may be something not recognizing  your camera for
>> some reason.  May want to check your logs for errors.
>>     
>
> In fact, there are many googling results wrt this gtkam error message - too 
> many to identify the problem reason :-) 
>
>   
>> I'm not using KDE 4 but gtkam should work regardless since it is not KDE.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>     
>
>
>
>   


If that many programs can't access your camera, either the system is not
able to recognize the camera or you have other problems.  Maybe you can
post the related portion of /var/log/messages or whatever log your
system uses and we can help.  Right now, I have no other clue.  We have
to have more info before we can help.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

[Andrew Gaydenko]

On Sunday 18 January 2009 00:48:25 Dale wrote:

> If that many programs can't access your camera, either the system is not
> able to recognize the camera or you have other problems.  Maybe you can
> post the related portion of /var/log/messages or whatever log your
> system uses and we can help.  Right now, I have no other clue.  We have
> to have more info before we can help.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)

Dale, you are right. I have tried gphoto2 from CLI - the error takes place. 
Probably will file an issue for upstream team. Unfortunately, there was very 
long period since last camera using, and I can not presume which update is the 
problem reason.

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

[Dale]

Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> On Sunday 18 January 2009 00:48:25 Dale wrote:
>
>   
>> If that many programs can't access your camera, either the system is not
>> able to recognize the camera or you have other problems.  Maybe you can
>> post the related portion of /var/log/messages or whatever log your
>> system uses and we can help.  Right now, I have no other clue.  We have
>> to have more info before we can help.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>     
>
> Dale, you are right. I have tried gphoto2 from CLI - the error takes place. 
> Probably will file an issue for upstream team. Unfortunately, there was very 
> long period since last camera using, and I can not presume which update is the 
> problem reason.
>
>
>   

In my past, it was a permissions issue that got me.  Make sure you are
in the right groups, or try as root.  If it works as root, then it
should be a permissions problem or missing group.

If it don't work as root, oh boy, you got problems now.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :_) 

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

[Andrew Gaydenko]

On Sunday 18 January 2009 01:11:51 Dale wrote:
>
> In my past, it was a permissions issue that got me.  Make sure you are
> in the right groups, or try as root.  If it works as root, then it
> should be a permissions problem or missing group.
>
> If it don't work as root, oh boy, you got problems now.  ;-)

Yes, I have got :-) Have sent debug info to gphoto mailing list.


>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :_)

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

[Dale]

Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> On Sunday 18 January 2009 01:11:51 Dale wrote:
>   
>> In my past, it was a permissions issue that got me.  Make sure you are
>> in the right groups, or try as root.  If it works as root, then it
>> should be a permissions problem or missing group.
>>
>> If it don't work as root, oh boy, you got problems now.  ;-)
>>     
>
> Yes, I have got :-) Have sent debug info to gphoto mailing list.
>
>
>   
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :_)
>>     
>
>
>
>   

Most Canon cameras that I have read about are p2p or something.  It
should just work but maybe there is something specific about your model
or they are changing the camera part.  I'm just glad I like my little
Canon PowerShotA95.  It has the flip out display which is hard to find
now.  I like mine that way to protect the display.  I don't think there
is a scratch on mine anywhere.

I hope they fix the bug or give a workaround soon.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P.S.  I recently got me a little cheap card reader to use for the camera
and the cell phone card. That works very well.  You do have to mount it
manually but it works well.  Camera uses CF and phone uses MicroSD. 
That may be a option.  The card reader has Targus wrote on it and it was
pretty cheap. 

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

[Andrew Gaydenko]

On Sunday 18 January 2009 10:37:56 Dale wrote:

>
> Most Canon cameras that I have read about are p2p or something.  It
> should just work but maybe there is something specific about your model
> or they are changing the camera part.

~2-3 months ago all did work.

> I'm just glad I like my little
> Canon PowerShotA95.  It has the flip out display which is hard to find
> now.  I like mine that way to protect the display.  I don't think there
> is a scratch on mine anywhere.
>
> I hope they fix the bug or give a workaround soon.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
> P.S.  I recently got me a little cheap card reader to use for the camera
> and the cell phone card. That works very well.  

I have SD-card-to-memory-stick "adapter" - it does work.

> You do have to mount it
> manually but it works well.  Camera uses CF and phone uses MicroSD.
> That may be a option.  The card reader has Targus wrote on it and it was
> pretty cheap.

Re: [gentoo-user] digikam, gtkam,... what's else?

[Andrew Gaydenko]

> On Sunday 18 January 2009 10:37:56 Dale wrote:
> > Most Canon cameras that I have read about are p2p or something.  It
> > should just work but maybe there is something specific about your model
> > or they are changing the camera part.
>
> ~2-3 months ago all did work.
>
> > I'm just glad I like my little
> > Canon PowerShotA95.  It has the flip out display which is hard to find
> > now.  I like mine that way to protect the display.  I don't think there
> > is a scratch on mine anywhere.
> >
> > I hope they fix the bug or give a workaround soon.
> >
> > Dale

Just to close the issue - have got the answer from the gphoto mailing list
from Marcus: "2.6.28 is broken in regards to any USB device driven from 
userspace".