Re: [gentoo-user] Digikam issue

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:34 PM, CJoeB <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> 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.