Re: [gentoo-user] udev rules for an iPod Touch?

[James Broadhead]

On 5 November 2011 19:45, Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, November 05, 2011 04:48:54 AM Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
>> > On Friday, November 04, 2011 06:03:55 PM Mark Knecht wrote:
>> >> 2011/11/4 Jorge Martínez López <jorgeml@×××××.com>:
>> >> > Did you install app-pda/ifuse and app-pda/libimobiledevice
>> >> > (dependency
>> >> > of ifuse and gtkpod)?. I do not recall touching any udev rule.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Hi Jorge,
>> >>    Thanks for the ifuse idea. ifuse /mnt/ipod does seem to get the
>> >> device mounted. However just poking around in the /mnt/ipod directory
>> >> isn't very clear by itself about how music (and one day hopefully
>> >> videos) are stored. Maybe I can find some info somewhere to help with
>> >> that if necessary.
>> >>
>> >>    Even with the device mounted it doesn't seem to be visible to
>> >> gtkpod, and there aren't any new USB disk messages in dmesg. Just a
>> >> single ifuse message is all that's added.
>> >>
>> >>    Well, at least I can sort of communicate with the ipod even if I
>> >> cannot do anything interesting yet
>> >
>> > I haven't played with my iPod touch yet, but the "older" models all
>> > worked with gtkpod.
>> > You might need to tell gtkpod to "open" the ipod by pointing it where it
>> > is mounted

I have the same problem, with an iPad, but effectively the same. iPods
work on the local Ubuntu machine, and I believe that usbmuxd is the
problem in this case. It's supposed to pick up the ipod announce in
dmesg and take over. I can't test atm, but it looks like a good place
to start.

Take a look here:
http://marcansoft.com/blog/2009/10/iphone-syncing-on-linux-part-2/

which is a little old, but  has piles of info. I'm thinking of
updating the HFS+ page on gentoo-wiki - if we figure this out, maybe
we can write up a good guide for Apple i* devices.