gtkpod on ubuntu

Christopher Aitken chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org
Sat Dec 15 17:27:56 UTC 2007


JoeHill wrote:
> JoeHill wrote: 
>
>   
>> Christopher Aitken wrote: 
>>
>>     
>>> Christopher Aitken wrote:  
>>>       
>>>> Top-post update as this thread is old now: In ubuntu, gtkpod keeps 
>>>> displaying the contents of the iPod, but the iPod keeps displaying "No 
>>>> Music".
>>>>
>>>> JoeHill wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>         
>>> <snip>  
>>>       
>>>>>  Be careful when using apps which lets you manually specify which 
>>>>> iPod model you own, they may overwrite that file when you do that.     
>>>>>           
>>>> That may be my problem now.    
>>>>         
>>>>> So if after doing that libgpod still seems to write invalid content 
>>>>> to the iPod, double-check the content of that SysInfo file to
>>>>> make sure the FirewireGuid line you added isn't gone. If that 
>>>>> happens, readd it
>>>>> to the end of the file,     
>>>>>           
>>>> Yeah it's still there - it's persisting.    
>>>>         
>>>>> and make sure libgpod rewrite the iPod content."
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> How do I do that - by re-installing libgpod? Or do you mean gtkpod?    
>>>>         
>>> Probably the most annoying thing about all of this is that when I chose 
>>> the correct model in gtkpod on the fedora machine (before the hard drive 
>>> died) that seemed to be last thing I did before it all started to work. 
>>> I remember selecting 3rd gen. 4 gb nano (with video) - not the exact 
>>> wording but all those parameters were int he description). Now, I don't 
>>> even see that selection. It's liek it's a different version of gtkpod. 
>>> Is the version of gtkpod that I loaded on fedora 7 via svn, different 
>>> from the one I installed on ubuntu via the ppa repo?.  
>>>       
>> Hmmm, that's funny, I've got that gtkpod installed here and it has 'Nano Video
>> 3rd Gen' under 'select your model'. Are you _sure_ you've got
>> gtkpod=0.99.10-2~ppa1 installed?
>>     
>
> gratuitous screenshot!
>
> freeyourmachine.org/gtkpod_ubuntu.png
>
>   
Yup - that's the one. Thanks,

Chris

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