Digikam and My Digital Cam

[Jef Driesen]

Amichai Rotman wrote:
> On 3/19/07, Jef Driesen <jefdriesen at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Amichai Rotman wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> My Ubuntu Edgy box was running slow, so I re-formated and re installed
>>> from scratch.
>>>
>>> Before the re-formating I used my Canon A520 (A.K.A. IXUS 50 (connected
>>> to USB) with Digikam - no problem.
>>>
>>> Since the fresh installation I get two problems:
>>>
>>> When I connect the camera I hear a beep from the computer's internal
>>> speaker and Digikam claims the camera isn't connected.
>>>
>>> When I remove the camera from the list and click the "Auto detect"
>>> button it finds the camera but when I choose it from the Camera menu it
>>> claims the camera is not connected or turned off.
>>>
>>> What's wrong? Do I have to install something that isn't installed?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>> Last week, I also had a problem with downloading pictures from my
>> digital camera (Canon Powershot A620) with gThumb. I think it was caused
>> by an update of libgphoto from the backports repository. After restoring
>> the old version, everything works again. Maybe you are experiencing the
>> same problem?
> 
> I think that might be it!
> 
> How did you restore the old version?

In synaptic choose "Packages -> Force version" for all the gphoto packages.

There is also a fix available in this bugreport: 
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgphoto2/+bug/67532