Re: digital camera question
On Thursday 15 April 2004 09:56 am, manfred@mosabuam.com wrote:
> 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
Thanks Manfred!
This may seem stupid, but I don't know HOW to see what 'device' gphoto2 is
trying to use. What should I try?
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