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

[Mark Knecht]

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.
>> >
>> > Greetings,
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jorge Martínez López <jorgeml@×××××.com> http://www.jorgeml.net
>> >       Google Talk / XMPP: jorgeml@×××××.com
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>    Thanks!
>>
>> - Mark
>
> Mark,
>
> 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.
>
> Menu: "Edit" -> "Repository/iPod Options"
> Then click on "Add new repository/iPod" and fill in the details for your iPod.
> (The backup-file is in my home-dir on my desktop for mine)
>
> Any files you manually copy to the iPod will NOT be picked up as a database
> file needs to be updated as well.
>
> Apple also has this annoying tendency to change the DB-structure for every
> version and gtkpod needs to have specific support for your model for it to
> work.
>
> --
> Joost

Hi Joost,
   Ah...insomnia...a great excuse for playing with computers and
answering emails... ;-)

   I had the same idea about telling gtkpod to use this specific iPod
when I started with this, but as best I can tell so far gtkpod won't
see the iPod unless it shows up in dmesg as a USB disk drive. I
believe I read that on their Wiki and was going to try and find the
link at www.gtkpod.org to verify that but the web site isn't
responding right now. I'll double check that later.

   The iPod she has is a First Generation version. It won't run iOS
more recent that 3.x so she cannot get any of the newer features with
iOS5 like NetFlix movies. (At least as far as I can tell so far. I
haven't checked that out very much yet.)

   My real need here is pretty small. I was trying to find something
nice for my wife 'cause she's been doing nice things for me, but
there's no rush on this. My personal interest was really because I've
got a Kindle Fire coming in a couple of weeks which I want to use to
watch movies when I'm donating blood. (I do that a lot because my
blood is pretty unique.) Anyway, I figured out Handbrake for ripping
my DVD collection and was going to use the iPod to test the video
playback. Anyway, I can probably do that from a Windows VM, or worst
case boot my laptop into Windows and do it native if required.

   Thanks for your help. I do appreciate it.

Cheers,
Mark