On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 14:20 +0000, Roderick Johnstone wrote: > On 23/12/10 14:06, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 13:04 +0000, Roderick Johnstone wrote: > >> On 23/12/10 12:59, Rex Dieter wrote: > >>> On 12/22/2010 03:23 PM, Roderick Johnstone wrote: > >>>> Hi > >>>> > >>>> Is amarok expected to see music on an iphone 3GS plugged into an F14 > >>>> system, because it didnt for me? I plugged in the iphone then started > >>>> amarok. > >>>> > >>>> After plugging in the iphone there is a pop-up that allows one to view > >>>> photos, but that is all. > >>>> > >>>> I'm wondering if I need to install libmtp-hal to make this work. > >>> > >>> Maybe. My own ipod touch doesn't work either, and ltinkl and I on irc > >>> the other day determined that libmtp was to blame for not properly > >>> id'ing the device. When/if I find the time, I was going to try working > >>> on that (perhaps over the holidays). > >> > >> ok, great! > >>> > >>> to test, install libmtp-examples pkg, and run > >>> $ mtp-detect > >>> > >>> and post it's output (esp if it mentions that you have an unrecognized > >>> device). > >> > >> Will do when I can. Unfortunately its not my iphone (belongs to one of > >> my users) so may not be able to do this before the new year. > >> > >> Possibly Patrick, who is in this thread, can do this in a more timely > >> fashion??? > > > > OK, here goes: > > > > $ mtp-detect > > libmtp version: 1.0.3 > > > > Listing raw device(s) > > Device 0 (VID=05ac and PID=1294) is a Sony DCR-SR75. > > Found 1 device(s): > > Sony: DCR-SR75 (05ac:1294) @ bus 1, dev 17 > > Attempting to connect device(s) > > LIBMTP PANIC: Unable to read device information on device 17 on bus 1, > > trying to continueUnable to open raw device 0 > > OK. > > > > poc > > I assume you tried editing: > /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players-libmtp.fdi > to have the right info since you reported in BZ #642487 exactly what the > problem was. Did that make the music players work, or what happened then? I did edit it, to the extent of changing the string mentioned in the pop-up. However it didn't fix the basic problem of the iPhone not being automatically recognized (i.e. the pop-up offering sensible options for what to do), so clearly some other changes are required. Possibly this line: <merge key="portable_audio_player.libmtp.protocol" type="string">mtp</merge> is the one to look at, but I really don't have much idea what I'm doing here, and again, I'm not convinced that MTP is what we should be looking at. There's a whole bunch of .fdi files that aren't part of the MTP package and may be more relevant. For example, this one: /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/10-camera-libgphoto2.fdi which has specific 3GS info, but only for the camera function. How all this stuff fits together is a mystery which may be elucidated in the HAL or FDI documentation, but not in an obvious way. It's ironic that this whole apparatus is supposed to make it easy to adapt Linux to new devices by changing config files, but is so hard to understand. What's needed is a Dummies Guide to tell the average user what to do. poc _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
