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
