I can verify that, at least with Ubuntu Breezy, which runs Gnome 2.12. I have hooked up a variety of devices to my USB port (digital camera, couple different MP3 players, printer and DVD burner) and they were all mounted and recognized with no input from me. On 5/4/06, Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon.jongsma at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 5/4/06, Jim Crumley <crumley at belka.space.umn.edu> wrote: > > > > You don't have to anything special to use the iPod as a disk > > under Linux. Just follow the directions for using gtkpod (or any > > other Linux iPod software). You just mount iPods as a removable > > disk to use them under Linux as either a mp3 player or removable > > disk. My fstab line is: > > /dev/sdb2 /media/ipod vfat noauto,user,sync 0 > 0 > > > > Depending on whether you are attaching the iPod through USB or > > firewire, you may also need to load a kernel module or two. > > > > Just to add to that, if you're using a recent GNOME desktop (and maybe > KDE too, I don't use KDE), the iPod should be automatically mounted as > soon as you connect it (at least it works for my shuffle). You can > still add it to /etc/fstab if you want, but it's probably not strictly > necessary these days (I don't have it in my /etc/fstab). Of course, > if you want to access it from outside of a desktop environment, you'll > need to do the fstab thing. > > Jonathon > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060504/8a156311/attachment-0001.htm