Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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

:-)  :-)