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On 05/27/10 15:33, Dale wrote: |
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> CJoeB wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> First, I have searched the archives and didn't find anything that seemed |
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>> to help. |
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>> The main issue here is with digikam. I used to have it working, but |
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>> some upgrade or other seemed to screw things up. |
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>> Digikam loads just fine. It recognizes and displays the pictures in the |
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>> folders on my hard drive. When my camera is plugged in and I select |
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>> "Import --> Camera", my camera appears in the list (not the specific |
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>> model, but it recognizes that it is a Canon). However, the images on |
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>> the camera are not displayed. I tried entering the camera manually. |
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>> Doing this, it wants a mount point which defaults to /mnt/camera. If I |
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>> then select "Import-->Camera", I get the message "Failed to connect to |
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>> camera". The correct mount point was created. BTW, I AM a member of |
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>> the plugdev group. |
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>> As a side issue, if I assume that I need to mount the camera manually, I |
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>> have always used the kwikdisk utility that is part of KDE. Despite the |
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>> fact that this appears as a menu item, it won't load. Equery tells me |
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>> that this belongs to the kdf package and I tried re-emerging kdf, but |
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>> kwikdisk still fails to load. |
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>> I am at a loss here and don't know what to do next. If anyone can help, |
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>> I need to be "led by the nose". |
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>> One would think that things would get easier to use in Linux, but that |
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>> isn't the case here. |
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>> Regards, |
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>> |
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>> Colleen |
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> Are you also in the USB group? My Canon is USB and I had to be in it |
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> for the camera to work. You may want to try running as root. If it |
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> works then, it's a permissions issue. If not, it may be |
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> hardware/software. |
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Yes, I am in the usb group. Running as root produced the same result as |
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described above. |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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