[Digikam-users] problem connecting with Canon Powershot

[Gys van Zyl]

This was a known problem with the 1.0 beta 5 installation that came with
ubuntu 9.10.  You should update to the latest version.  For ubuntu it's
easy, just add this PPA and update as normal

https://launchpad.net/~fboucault/+archive/ppa
<https://launchpad.net/~fboucault/+archive/ppa>

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:26 AM, N Fuller <nfuller at netwood.net> wrote:

> Running Digikam 1.0.0-beta5 on my new Ubuntu 9.0 distribution, but can
> no longer download from my Canon Powershot A 710S, as I could without
> any problem when I was running digiKam 0.6.2 on my old Mandrake 10.1.
>
> Keep getting error messages like "error connecting to camera"  "could
> not lock the device"  "connection failed" "failed to connect to
> camera".  I'm using my camera's cable connected to the USB port as
> before, and have tried to list the camera as USB class camera, and as
> auto-detect, with no success.
>
> BTW I can download the pix in my old distribution and version of
> digiKam, and then move them over to the new digiKam and work with them
> just fine, so it seems to be a problem connecting with my camera.
>
> Help?
>
> Nancy
>
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