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

[Joost Roeleveld]

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.
> >> >
> >> > 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.

Maybe for auto-detection, but the first time I played with gtkpod, I had 
problems auto-mounting usb-devices and always did the mounting as root.

Telling gtkpod where the iPod was mounted was sufficient.

>    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.)

I never did, my previous employer had a tendency to give out new iPods each 
year. Not sure if they still do, I would have preferred something more 
usefull, like an eReader.

>    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.

Virtualbox has decent USB-pass-through support. Even quite high performance.

>    Thanks for your help. I do appreciate it.