Re: digital camera question

[manfred@mosabuam.com]

Quoting Mike Chandler <mailmanmike@sbcglobal.net>:

> Now, using Debian testing, with kernel 2.4.25-1-386, have installed gphoto, 
> (and the front end gtkam).
> So I run gtkam and it will detect my camera, however there is an error:
> 
> Could not initialize camera.
> 
> If I try and use kde control center >peripherals >digital camera:
> 
> Unable to initialize camera. Check your port settings and camera connectivity
> 
> and try again.
> 
> My USB printer/scanner and USB mouse work fine.
> I have searched, and searched, and the best I can come up with is USB 
> permissions, or needing SCSI emulation.

You might be close with this guess. Check what device gphoto wants to use (e.g.
/dev/camera or whatever) and make sure you got permissions to that. 

Do a 

tail -f /var/log/messages 

when you try to see whats going on.

Manfred