[Digikam-devel] [Bug 238802] New: documentation excellent but not completely correct anymore

[Siward de Groot]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238802

           Summary: documentation excellent but not completely correct
                    anymore
           Product: digikam
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Debian testing
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: siward at ziggo.nl


Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.3) 
OS:                Linux

Hello Digikam people,

I was trying to find out how to get pictures out of my camera
and searched various places, and found the answer at your site.
Thank you very much !

I followed the instructions given on www.digikam.org/docs.html#q3
(which i found from a link on a gphoto page).
I skipped the 'configuring a kernel' step,
 hoping that Debian had done that for me.
Then i did 'modprobe ide-scsi', but it failed
with errormessage : module ide_scsi not found' ;
perhaps this is now built statically into kernel and not a module anymore ?
It would be nice to point out that this failure is not fatal.

I also did all the other modprobes listed on your faq page
and the ones that failed were :
ide-scsi, usb-uhci, usb-ohci

Then your documentation says that i should
"Plug in your USB device.
 You should see your device listed in /proc/bus/usb/devices.
 If not, you need to fix the kernel or check your cabling."
I did not find my device listed in /proc/bus/usb/devices.
and that directory does not even exist ; /proc/bus/usb is an empty directory.
This nearly made me give up,
so i think it would be good to fix this in your documentation
because i did ultimately succeed.

I installed sg3-utils, which worked well, and told me which device,
and i mounted it, and hey ! .jpg files ! Hooray !

I then indulged myself in looking at the pictures for a while
(without copying them)
and this caused the battery to go empty,
so suddenly my mount point did not have anything there anymore.
This was no problem ; after recharging it was all good again.
But i wonder whether the warning
about always carefully umounting the camera before unplugging it
is really necessary.

Now that i'm writing this, i am trying all of it again,
to not report things that are not right,
and now i find that the camera is on /dev/sdb
while yesterday it was on /dev/sda .
I don't know what causes it (perhaps caused by not umounting ?)
but it would seem to make an fstab entry a bit impossible.

Thanks again,
i hope my bugreport is usefull to you,
and have a nice day :-)

Siward de Groot


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
It's a documentation bug ; just re-read that webpage.


Actual Results:  
I was enlightened.

Expected Results:  
It should not have told me that i needed to re-configure kernel
(which would not have fixed anything)
and should also not have told me that i needed to buy a new cabling
(which would not have fixed anything)
but should instead have explained that Linux develops so fast that
it is impossible for documentation to keep up with it.

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