flarefox Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 I was trying to either get the iRiver u10 to work or find an iAudio 6 in america. It seems like no one sells the iAudio 6 outside fo the uk and asian countries, so I got the u10. An associate at the store and someone on the phone at iRiver both told me it would work in linux. I got it and...it doesn't. I emailed them and they gave me a very rude "you are wrong." response. Needless to say I am not happy with them now. The u10 has got to be the most beautiful audio player I've seen and the fact that it plays video so well (wow!) is just wonderful. I'd really like to keep from rebooting every single time I want to add music to it. Can anyone tell me if you know of a way to do that or an audio player with an interface as seamless and nice as the u10? Can anyone point me to something that lets you reincode video files for the simple profile divx encoding? When I plug it in, the u10 is recognized and it seems to be trying to work. I just can't get it to mount or to transfer music files. Very strange. It shows up in harddrake, but has no module. Thanks for any help in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 do a search in the software installer for libifp, if you can't find it grab an rpm from the libifp website and installing it from the command line with urpmi, i.e.: # urpmi <filename>.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flarefox Posted April 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 It doesn't seem to work.. I tried that at first with the ifpgui program. It finds the device and has firmware that is compatible, but it ignores it or errors out. Is there another way to make it work or are there errors from it? Thanks for helping me! I'm kind-of new to this usb stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 (edited) IIRC that should be mountable as a usb storage device. If the device is showing up in harddrake, that's almost surely the case. Try connecting the device and power it on then run this in a console: $ su <Enter root password> # fdisk -l Post the output here. Also post your /etc/fstab file here with the device connected and powered on. Edited April 10, 2006 by pmpatrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flarefox Posted April 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 the output of fdisk -l is: dee]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 2016 16193488+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 2017 19929 143886172+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 2017 2219 1630566 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 2220 19929 142255543+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/hdb: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 24791 199133676 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sda: 203.9 GB, 203927060480 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 24600 197599468+ b W95 FAT32 Disk /dev/sdc: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 36483 293049666 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) That doesn't show the device anywhere that I see. It would be an sdsomething but it just doesn't show up. In hard drake it shows up under scanner and Unknown/Others. Does that help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 I assume sda(203.9 Gb) and sdc(300 Gb) are sata drives; correct me if that's wrong. Also, post your /etc/fstab; I'm trying to get some idea of your hardware layout. If this thing can be detected as a usb storage device, then you must first have certain usb modules loaded. You can see what modules are loaded by running this as root: # lsmod look for the usb-storage module. If it's not there, no usb storage devices will be detected. To load it run: # modprobe usb-storage You can check with lsmod to make sure it's loaded and try your fdisk -l command again and see if the device is picked up. If it is you're half way home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flarefox Posted April 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 It doesn't load as a usb storage drive regretfully. I did more looking. Unless you know how to get mtp working in linux (there's a driver but I can't ever make it compile), it won't work. It doesn't use the normal transfer methods. Instead, it's windows "Plays For Sure"..... another way for them to try and lock everyone else out. Awesome player, but just not compatible yet it seems...until an open source mtp is released. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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