On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 02:26 +0000, chris wrote: > I mostly use arch these days, but I've learned a little about this > problem recently, and thought I'd share (since the kde guys were kind of > rude about it in their upstream bug tracker). > > The recent commit to amarok should allow it to properly detect > iphones/touches -- *if* the device is recognized by solid, which means > it must also be recognized by hal. sshfs mounts don't show up in hal > because no hardware is actually involved, and hal is for managing > hardware. So, something in amarok or solid, or (less likely) hal needs > to change for sshfs to become viable in amarok2.
This is exactly what I descibe in the bug. > > An option which may be viable, which I'm experimenting with, is > iFuse[1]. iFuse attempts to communicate with iphones/touches via native > Apple protocols over USB. Since the connection is via USB, the device > is recognized by hal and solid, at least in theory. Well, no. iFuse is just like SSHFS. Both use FUSE, and fuse does not declare volumes in HAL. > > For me, on arch, theory breaks down rather quickly. The hal portion of > iFuse is dependent on an fdi file included with iFuse, which doesn't > exactly work (at least not on arch). I've been hacking on it, but I'm > not quite there yet. This fdi file is for when HAL detects the USB device. It is no declaration of the FUSE volume. > > There is a deb package for debian experimental that might be a good > place for ubuntu users to start. It might even work out of the box for > you. > I even tried compiling it from source, just in case I was wrong. I was not. Nico -- Amarok 2 lost support for iPhone-like devices - Choice between 2 and 1.4? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362182 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to amarok in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
