Re: [Banshee-List] Help with iPod setup

["Russ Brown" <pickscrape gmail com>]

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:00:24 -0600, Luis Medinas <metalgod gentoo org>  
wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 14:42 -0600, Russ Brown wrote:
> > Aaron,
> >
> > Thank you very much for your excellent help.
> >
> > First, my ipod wasn't being detected in dmesg because the ipod needed
> > resetting: it had presumably got itself into a funny state where it  
> > wasn't
> > reporting its existence to the USB host. Might be a tip worth adding to
> > your troubleshooting page...
> >
> > Second, you were correct in that my ipod wasn't being mounted. In  
> > gentoo,
> > you apparently need to be in the 'plugdev' group to be able to use the
> > pmount utilities (another one that might be worth adding to the
> > troubleshooting page).
> Yes it's true you should be on the plugdev group to be able to use
> pmount/hal/dbus
> > I haven't got gnome-volume-manager working yet (I'm using xfce4) but  
> > I'll
> > get to that later.
> you can try using ivman(available on portage) instead of G-V-M

Thanks for the pointer: this looks like being exactly what I need (for  
more than just this purpose too!)

> > So, now I have a sitation: the ipod is being detected, it gets manually
> > mounted and the ipod utility shows that the ipod has been detected  
> > through
> > HAL. Now comes my next problem: the mono process grows to nealy 2GB in
> > VIRT (567 RES) according to top, system load shoots up to 4+ and the
> > system is unusable for a while. I hear sounds coming from the iPod so  
> > it's
> > obviously accessing the device. After a while things settle down. Mono  
> > is
> > still using a huge amount of RAM (I'm basically clean out of swap at the
> > moment), but I can use my system again. The bad news is that after all
> > that, the ipod has not shown up in Banshee.
> >
> > So near and yet so far. :)
> what udev version are you using ? 073 is broken upgrade to 077-r2 and
> you should have those issues fixed. Banshee works very good with my ipod
> using ~arch versions of udev, dbus, hal and pmount.
> About that mono issue it sounds weird to me because i can't reproduce it
> on my system.
>
> Of course if you have more related issues on Gentoo non Banshee specific
> you can reach me on irc,mail or even report a bug(if you find
> anyone ;)). I'll be grad to continue working with banshee upstream to
> provide a great support for Gentoo Linux.

At the time I writing my last email I was running udev 071. I have since  
upgraded to 077-r2, but have actually found that has caused matters to  
regress somewhat. udev now no longer creates sdc device nodes in /dev when  
I plug the ipod in. I do get notifications in the kernel logs that let me  
know that the device has been added (which even reference the names sdc  
etc.) For example:

Dec  9 23:07:09 [kernel] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage  
devices
Dec  9 23:07:14 [kernel]   Vendor: Apple     Model: iPod              Rev:  
1.62
Dec  9 23:07:14 [kernel] SCSI device sdc: 39063023 512-byte hdwr sectors  
(20000 MB)
Dec  9 23:07:14 [kernel] sdc: Write Protect is off
Dec  9 23:07:14 [kernel] SCSI device sdc: 39063023 512-byte hdwr sectors  
(20000 MB)
Dec  9 23:07:14 [kernel] sdc: Write Protect is off
Dec  9 23:07:15 [kernel] Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi4,  
channel 0, id 0, lun 0

I can find no device nodes in /dev to match. ivman isn't picking the  
device up and I don't know where to look to figure out what device I need  
to mount manually (I should not that I did recompile HAL, DBUS and the  
Banshee applications when I upgraded udev).

Has anything changed in udev that could affect this behaviour?

Thanks again.

--

Russ