Canon Cameras

[richardnicholas1]

I am new to Mageia 3 but have been using Linux (Ubuntu) for a while.
Although most things are working absolutely fine, I am having great difficulty getting to my photographs with Mageia,
I have two Canon cameras. One is a Powershot S5IS, the other an IXUS 210.
When I plug them in, I am asked which application to open to view the images. Click on Gwenview or File Manager, a window opens but there is nothing there.
If I click on DigiKam, the S5IS will open but not the IXUS.
Any help would be gratefully received.
I am happy do things on the terminal but am always a bit worried about delving too deeply into the system, so any answer needs to be in simple language, please !!

Thanks,

Richard

[doktor5000]

Please have a look here: http://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings/Digital_Camera
Did you add your cameras there? Also your camera should offer you settings how it is recognised by other devices,
at least PPTP or USB Mass Storage should be selectable.

Could also be that you need e.g. gphoto to access the pictures ...

[David_Batson]

I just saw this post on the Arch Linux forums. Possibly related?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=165497

[Symbioxy]

Hi,

I also have a Canon camera and have the same (or similar) issue.
It was working fine with Mageia2 and it is not working any more with Mageia3. I've had the same issue on 2 different computers.
This problem occurs when using a USB cable to connect the camera, I think it is ok when plugin the flash card itself in the computer.

I read several messages like that on the french forum, I seems the issue is not related to the camera, but to Mageia3 or Digikam.

I only found this bug report: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8838
But not much activity on it, I'll try and report our problems.

[richardnicholas1]

Thank you for all the input.

It does look as though there is some sort of a bug in the system. Furthermore, when I try to find the IXUS 210 on the camera list on Digikam, it is not there - whereas the S5IS is. Hence Digikam not recognising the camera.

But the work around is to use Shotwell, which sees both camers and will import still images and video from both. It just worked, straight out of the box.

Not a complete solution, but it is a fix.

Richard

[doktor5000]

It does look as though there is some sort of a bug in the system. Furthermore, when I try to find the IXUS 210 on the camera list on Digikam, it is not there - whereas the S5IS is. Hence Digikam not recognising the camera.

You may want to report that upstream: https://bugs.kde.org/