Camera not working in KDEMod 3.5.9

lord_loafer · 2008-04-13 13:34:22

Hello all,

Hope you're all well?

I'm a relatively new user of Linux and very new with Arch. I am competent in many things though, so know the basics. I have looked all over for a solution to this problem, but come unstuck so far.....

I have a digital camera (a Fujifilm 6500FD) and cannot get it to work in KDE - it automounts on the desktop etc and comes up as an imaging device, but will not let me access it, always providing the error 'unknown protocol 'camera''. I have looked everywhere and tried various things to no avail!

Please help if possible, I'll be eternally grateful!

I also have a problem with Digikam saying 'cannot convert database from old format to new format' (which I understand is a problem with the current stable/repo version, so I will just wait for new here).

I'm loving Arch otherwise and find the community is fantastic, so please help if you can! :-)

Best regards
Mark

PS - System details in SIG below

lord_loafer · 2008-04-15 22:07:03

Bump - anyone?

DeeCodeUh · 2008-04-16 01:50:50

Are you using Konqueror or Digikam to access the camera?
If you haven't already, try using Konqueror to browse your camera.

lord_loafer · 2008-04-16 10:17:50

Thank you very much for your reply - The error above happens when trying to use Konqueror. Digikam would be my preferred option, but it simply says 'failed to update old database to new database' or something to that effect when I try to start it - apparently this is a documented bug, and is fixed in the new version (but is not yet in the repo).

I have the 'camera' option in the group file and have my name next to it, I also have the camera model etc in the libgphoto file.

I cannot get my head around this.... is there a camera module that needs specifiying at boot time or anything?

This is the only thing I'm really missing now, everything else is working great and looking awesome! (well, I cannot get printing to a network shared printer to work either, but not bothered about this)

Please if anyone can help, let me know.

Best regards
Mark

SCREENSHOT OF THE EXACT ERROR
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/lord_loafe … Screen.jpg

Last edited by lord_loafer (2008-04-16 10:51:58)

theringmaster · 2008-04-16 13:43:44

install libgphoto2 and then add yourself to the camera group. You may have already done this I see.

gpasswd -a user camera

Last edited by theringmaster (2008-04-16 13:44:43)

lord_loafer · 2008-04-16 16:17:23

Hello,

Thanks for your suggestion - I have already done it, but I did it again to make sure:

Sudo pacman -Sy libgphoto2 (says it's already installed and re-installs it

Then

sudo gpasswd -a [user] camera

Which says added to group - but I have already checked the file in nano and made sure as well.

Thanks again for the suggestions though.... this is a really frustrating one!

:-)

Best regards
Mark

rumix · 2008-04-16 19:21:50

There seems to be a bug in gphoto2 or udev currently which prevents me from accessing my camera via PTP as well.
Is there a way to tell your camera it should act like a normal mass-storage device?
This solved my problem with accessing my camera as user.

You could try accessing your cam by using 'gphoto2 -P' as root as well.

lord_loafer · 2008-04-16 19:28:27

Hello,

Yes, thanks to the wonders of the forums, I have indeed managed to access and take photos from the camera by using the command line gphoto, but obviously I'd love to have it working properly.... does anyone have an idea when Digikam will be fixed also? Or maybe would be kind enough to point me to a 64 bit build of the new version?

Also, I know this is minor and is not really a problem, but I would also like to get printing to my Linkstation live attached printer (an HP LJ1020) - it all detects ok and says the printer is ready etc in the CUPS utility, but will not print. It comes up with the error 'could not fetch ticket cache for user'.

I know that is off the subject, but if someone knows this as well as the Camera thing, it would be great to kill 2 birds with 1 stone!

Thanks to all so far!

Best regards
Mark

PS - If anyone is up for a game of poker anytime, let me know (PokerTH)

rumix · 2008-04-16 19:51:50

Ok now i found the solution for your (and my) problem with fetching photos via digikam. In line 62 of the file '/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules' you simply have to replace '644' with '666' and you are done. Solved my problem instantly. Good luck!

Last edited by rumix (2008-04-17 15:36:55)

theringmaster · 2008-04-17 01:10:53

kind of an unlucky number there, eh? LoL

oh and about the hp printer. I have an all-in-one hp printer that i got working near flawlessly by installing hplip.

pacman -S hplip

it's a qt app so it will look nice on your kdemod desktop; looks terrible on my gnome desktop, but whatever.

Last edited by theringmaster (2008-04-17 01:12:57)

lord_loafer · 2008-04-17 23:16:15

Hello all....

Rumix - tried your suggestion, unfortunately no dice as yet (unless it needs a restart, in which case I'll let you know tomorrow! But thanks all the same for suggesting something, much appreciated.

theringmaster - I already have hplip installed, still no dice... :-( oh well.... again, thanks for your suggestion! :-)

Best regards
Mark

lord_loafer · 2008-04-17 23:58:27

Interesting....... through a bit more playing around (including a reinstall of the KAMERA software) - I now can get the flie browser to open the mounted camera (mounted on /media/camera), but it shows as empty.... even though when looking at gphoto command line or even the KDE control panel applet for the camera, you can see the images. Weird.....

Pulling my hair out on this one!

Best regards
Mark

SlodS · 2008-04-18 10:31:48

Hey,

It looks like file permission issue, so maybe you have the same problem as here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9935
Similar disscussion and a few solutions are in this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 31#p348431

Good luck

glad · 2008-04-18 10:45:08

Thanks, it works for me after changing the numbers in the udev file;-)

lord_loafer · 2008-04-18 17:55:55

Thanks once again, I'll have a look at the links when I get chance and report back.....

Best regards
Mark

lord_loafer · 2008-04-20 18:24:49

Hello all again,

I tried the links and still the same I'm afraid, but I'm giving up on this one until the Digikam version in the repo is updated, then I may try again with Digikam.

Thanks again for everybody that helped!

Best regards
Mark

denisfalqueto · 2008-04-21 03:33:04

Hello,
I wouldn't suggest you to change the permissions to 666. Instead, it is better to add yourself to the storage group, whitch is the group that has the power to access usb storage devices. Do you have a pendrive? Does it work?

Hope that helps.

pudgewacl · 2008-04-21 17:18:54

Out of curiosity, why would you not recommend changing the permission to 666?
Making this change is the only way that I have been able to reliably access my photos via digikam.

Prior to the change, my flashdrive would work fine, but I could not access photos on my camera via digikam (already a member of storage and camera).
Once I changed the permission to 666, the flashdrive still works plus digikam is able to access my camera

Thanks,
Matt

brebs · 2008-04-25 02:21:51

pudgewacl wrote:

why would you not recommend changing the permission to 666?

It's basic security. Want a runaway/buggy/malicious program to delete your photos or even damage the hardware by telling it to e.g. endlessly activate the flash?

This is why we have user groups. Read access is debatable, but read/write is a security joke.

Same applies to nvidia, BTW

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