Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] compiling 0.12.2 with mtp support

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org>]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 04:37:11PM +0200, Renato Budinich wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 21:06 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:41:08PM +0200, Renato Budinich wrote:
> > > Hello, i'm trying to compile rhythmbox 0.12.2 with mtp support, but
> > > passing --with-mtp option to configure doesn't trigger MTP integration
> > 
> > The MTP plugin requires HAL for device detection.  It should complain more
> > visibly if you explicitly request the MTP plugin but it can't be built, but ..
> > autoconf.
> Aha, installing package libhal-dev and then rerunning ./configure
> --with-mtp did the trick. Thanks
> 
> But now i'm not seeing my MTP device (Zen Mozaic) in rhythmbox. The MTP
> plugin is enabled. 

Try running the libmtp detect program (usually called mtp-detect).  If it manages to
identify the device, then rhythmbox should too.

> I can mount the device with 
> sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/zen
> but it still won't show in Rhythmbox.

That definitely will not help.