On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 13:45 -0300, Mario Storti wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 12:12 +0000, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote: >> >> On 15/02/13 08:49 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> >> > On 02/15/2013 06:40 AM, Mario Storti wrote: >> >> >> KDE Device Notifier stopped showing my cell phone after upgrade to >> >> >> Fedora 17/18. (I don't know exactly if it was for F17 or for F18, >> >> >> since I did the upgrade to F17 and immediately after I did the upgrade >> >> >> to F18.) >> >> >> >> >> >> I did some research and found many posts related to MTP, suggesting to >> >> >> install mtpfs, jmtpfs. I followed the recipes with no success. >> >> > >> >> > Try installing kio_mtp ? >> >> >> >> kio-mtp sort of works with Nexus 4 but it crashes more often than actually manages to complete any >> >> copying task. Sometimes, just sometimes, it succeeds. I got the impression that maybe it's not >> >> maintained or really, really buggy. So I used the method described on the web [1] and mount the >> >> phone using simple-mtpfs. Not clicky nor automatic but works reliably. >> > >> > I do pretty much that (the stock mtpfs is very unreliable and doesn't >> > seem to be maintained. Perhaps kio_mtp is using it underneath?). What I >> > don't do is add any udev-rules stuff. It doesn't seem to be necessary as >> > far as I can see. IOW I just run: >> > >> > simple-mtpfs <my-nexus-directory-point> & >> > >> > and later >> > >> > fusermount -u <my-nexus-directory-point> >> > >> > and it Just Works (tm). This is on F18 but F17 was the same. >> > >> > poc >> >> Thanks guys for your tips. I don't think this will help me because as >> I described before, my problem seems to be KDE specific. The device is >> correctly detected in Gnome and even in Gimp (running on KDE!). So I'm >> think that it is rather a bug in the KDE Device Notifier or either a >> misconfiguration in my system. > > I should have mentioned that I'm also using KDE. On device insertion, I > see an entry in the device notifier (labelled "Portable Media Player") > with several possible actions including downloading photos with Gwenview > or Digikam, and opening with the File Manager. After installing kio_mtp > I have an additional action for the File Manager. Unfortunately the > pop-up doesn't distinguish between the two FM entries but testing shows > that one opens with the camera: protocol and the other with mtp:. > Presumably I could fix the labelling by editing the notifier settings, > but as I said I don't use this as simple-mtpfs works fine. I don't see the "Portable Media Player" entry in device notifier. > You might try "simple-mtpfs -l" to see if it detects your phone. Also, > unlock the phone before inserting it (this seems to matter more or less > randomly as far as I can tell). [mstorti@kinky mstorti]$ simple-mtpfs -l No raw devices found. [mstorti@kinky mstorti]$ I think now that the phone perhaps is not connecting through MTP at all! This reinforces my idea that it is rather a misconfiguration in my KDE settings or a bug in device notifier. Thanks! Mario -- ------------------------- Mario Alberto Storti [cel. +54-342-5122135] CIMEC (INTEC/CONICET-UNL) Predio CONICET-Santa Fe Colect. Ruta Nac. 168 Km 472, Paraje El Pozo 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina Tel: +54-342-4511594 (ext 1015), Tel/Fax: +54-342-4511169 Home: +54-342-4550193, e-mail: mario.storti at gmail.com http://www.cimec.org.ar/mstorti ------------------------- _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
