I'm not sure if this problem is related to Knoppix/Debian or to gphoto2---or a mixture of the two! Whatever, I would really appreciate some guidance, especially as it all worked automagically under Mandrake 9.1.

There are three issues here:

1. I can only access the camera as root (though my user id is a member of the usb group).

2. The camera is identified by 'gphoto2 --auto-detect' as an 'Argus-DC2200' when it is in fact a 'Fuji @xia ix-100', which is supported in the KDE-Control Centre

3. Although wrongly identified gphoto2 will list the files on the camera but is unable to download them, returning:

*** Error ***
An error occurred in the io-library ('Error reading from the port'): No error description available
*** Error (-34: 'Error reading from the port') ***


Testing the camera in KDE Control Centre returns 'Unable to initialize camera... Could not claim USB device'.


Any bright ideas?

Thanks, almala