[Digikam-users] Digikam 0.9.3 problems continue - getting desperate now

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/5/19 RF <frosterrj at sbcglobal.net>:
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de>
> To: digiKam - Digital Photo Management for the masses <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 12:45:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Digikam 0.9.3 problems continue - getting desperate now
>
> Hi Mark,
>
>> Any help and/or advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sorry to hear about your problems to which I also don't have any
> good idea. The only thing coming to my mind is
> an alternative approach: buy yourself a card-reader
> (which is not that expensive), mount that as usb-drive
> and copy over the files to the corresponding directory
> below your digikam tree.
>
> Of course, this is no solution to the original problem, but
> just a work-around ...
>
> Maybe someone else has a better idea how to debug the
> real problem.
>
> Best, Arnd
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> Really you should be using a card reader instead of hooking the camera up directly.  I have the 40D and use Digikam exclusively this way on PCLOS with no problems.  Card readers are much faster than the camera as well.
>
> Not sure if you have the camera set correctly to PTP or what ever it's supposed to be, but that may be the problem as well.
>
> Robert

Yes, Robert give the right way.

digiKam use Gphoto2 driver to talk with Canon camera (PTP protocol),
and only like this, because Canon do not support Usb Mass Storage!

Second, Canon camera drivers is a mess in gphoto2. it's not the fault
to gphoto2 developpers, but the complexity to test with Canon stuff...

If you google "canon + gphoto2 + digiKam", you will see than you is
not alone (:=))

note : If you want to help gphoto2 team contact developper into
#gphoto irc channel

best

Gilles Caulier