Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 0.11 ipod problem

["Gregoire Gentil" <gregoire gentil com>]

Aaron,

Thanks for your reply. I'm building Banshee using Gentoo - it's using
the tarball not svn. I have almost all the latest version as I mentioned
in earlier emails.

Here is my hal-device file:
http://www.gentil.com/hal-device.txt

There is no occurrence of WriteIpodInfo.

Yes, I used the use flag ipod in Gentoo to compile Banshee with ipod
support. Note that the ipod icon appears in Banshee with a correct
report of the ipod hardware info,

Grégoire



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Bockover [mailto:abockover novell com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 12:05 PM
> To: gregoire gentil com
> Cc: banshee-list gnome org; 'Matt Philmon'
> Subject: RE: [Banshee-List] Banshee 0.11 ipod problem
> 
> 
> What distro are you running? What is the output of:
> 
> hal-device | grep WriteIpodInfo
> 
> With your iPod plugged in. Also, when you built Banshee, are you sure
> that iPod support was actually enabled? It sounds like the USB mass
> storage support may actually be taking over.
> 
> --Aaron
> 
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 09:12 -0400, Gregoire Gentil wrote:
> > Interesting: Ipod --list failed because libgtop was not 
> installed. After
> > installing libgtop, ipod reports:
> > 
> > ipod --list
> > glibtop: This machine has 1 CPUs, 1 are being monitored.
> > 
> > (process:29964): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_ascii_strtoull: 
> assertion `nptr !=
> > NULL' failed
> > Path Info
> >    Device Path:      /dev/sda2
> >    Mount Point:      /media/usbdisk
> >    Control Path:     /media/usbdisk/iPod_Control/
> >    HAL ID:
> > /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part2_size_3948134400
> > Device Info
> >    Model Number:     (null)
> >    Device Model:     Unknown
> >    iPod Generation:  Unknown
> >    Adv. Capacity:    (null)
> >    Is New:           YES
> >    Writable:         YES
> >    Serial Number:    (null)
> >    Firmware Version: (null)
> >    Manufacturer ID:
> >    Production Year:  0000
> >    Production Week:  00
> >    Production Index: 0
> > Volume Info
> >    Volume Size:      3948134400
> >    Volume Used:      74760192
> >    Available         3873374208
> >    UUID:             (null)
> >    Label
> > User-Provided Info
> >    Device Name:      (null)
> >    User Name:        (null)
> >    Host Name:        (null)
> > 
> > 
> > Note that behavior in Banshee is still the same even after the
> > installation of libgtop. Ipod is recognized, the icon 
> appears, size of
> > content is correctly reported but importing the ipod 
> continues for ever
> > without getting anything, Any other idea how to debug?
> > 
> > Many thanks by advance,
> > 
> > Grégoire
> > 
> > 
> > PS: My comment was not aggressive. I understand your point 
> and I agree
> > about open standard, and it's unfortunate that it's wishful thinking
> > both for Microsoft and Apple.
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Aaron Bockover [mailto:abockover novell com] 
> > > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:41 AM
> > > To: banshee-list gnome org; gregoire gentil com
> > > Cc: 'Matt Philmon'
> > > Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 0.11 ipod problem
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 00:49 -0400, Gregoire Gentil wrote:
> > > > Yes, I read about this:
> > > > 
> http://abock.org/2006/09/14/we-need-you-and-apple-sucks-part-2
/. But
> > > in any case, to my mind, it's up to Banshee to adapt itself 
> > to iPod -
> > > not sure that Steve Jobs really cares about Banshee. ;-)
> > 
> > Wow, you completely did not get my point. Of course we adapt. 
> > We already
> > have adapted. It took only a few days from that post. Our 
> > adaptation was
> > in Banshee 0.11.0, libipoddevice 0.5.0, and ipod-sharp 0.6.2. My
point
> > is simply that it's unfortunate things have to be this way 
> > instead of, I
> > don't know, an open standard - wishful thinking.
> > 
> > Does "ipod --list" show anything?
> > 
> > --Aaron
> > 
> >  
> > > My iPod shows now in its About dialog menu:
> > > GNUpod 0.98.3
> > > Version 1.0.1
> > > Model MA487LL
> > > Format: Windows
> > > The iPod has never been reinstalled and it has never plugged into
a
> > > Windows system. The disk was originally formatted in FAT 
> > and I did all
> > > what is written below.
> > >  
> > > Note that the GNUpod format is perhaps the problem. I begin to
guess
> > > that Banshee really needs an Apple iTunesDB. If there is no DB or
> > > written with another standard, it fails. Could my assumption be
> > > correct?
> > >  
> > >  
> 
>