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Guys I have issues with digikam rights. I have asked on the kubuntu and ubuntu forums and have not had much luck finding a solution. When I try to download my picture from my camera using my normal login there is nothing in the camera. When I use sudo digikam there is no problem. I can use picasa and there is no problem at all. I know, I know, just use picasa. the problem is it drives me nuts when there is something that is suppose to work and it doesn't. It just bugs the crap out of me. I know there is a rights issue somewhere, but I can't find the spot to give access.

David

Assuming there is a camera group, are you a member of it? I had to add myself to the camera group on my arch box to use digikam. Groups are getting so damned confusing these days...

Thank's for the input, but there is no camera group. If I look here

45-libgphoto2.rules

there is a group "plugdev" associated with the camera. I am a member of this group. I think there must be an device in /dev that I need rights to. I just don't know how to find it.

This is my first experience with kubuntu. It does use a bunch of obscure groups. I like it. I love apt-get. Much better than the RPM based distros I had been using.

Still open for ideas.

D

Hmmm, this is very odd. Is it possible something else is claiming the device when you plug it in? I've seen problems where the device gets mounted as a storage device and if you attempt to pull the information off the camera using digikam or another photo editor it will not let you because it cannot claim the device (it's already mounted). I never tried getting around this by using root so I am not sure whether this is your problem.

I believe the picasa does not use gphoto or if it does, it uses something internal or bundeled with the app.

Have you tried gthumb or f-spot and see if the problem replicates?

You could try changing the MODE="0660" in 45-libgphoto2.rules to MODE="0666"; but before doing this make sure you back up the file. You'll have to use sudo and a text editor. It might be easies to use kate or something like that and do a quick find and replace. Again, backup first.

Were you originally part of the plugdev group or did you add yourself. If you added yourself did you log out and back in again before trying digikam?

spotslayer wrote: Still open for ideas.

D

In addition to what dann said, please open a terminal and sudo -i to become root. Then do: and see what gets kicked out while you plug the camera in and then try to access it. Post it here if you want help parsing the output.

Well Guys I have solved this. I started hacking at it using the ideas you gave me. I started by trying to open digikam as normal and as root. I wanted to see the output as suggested by snarkout. While doing this I noticed that as root the camera was detected by digikam as a Canon SD850(PTP). As normal user I had manually set it up as SD800(PTP), which is what it is. It is not an SD850. I let digikam autodetect as it had done when I was root. It was seen as a SD850. Tried it and it worked. Don't know why it is being seen by the system as the wrong camera, but it now works so I'm content.

I only pulled a little piece of scalp out.

D

I'm glad things worked out for you and even happier that you posted your solution. Thanks!