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.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathon Jongsma</b> <<a href="mailto:jonathon.jongsma@gmail.com">jonathon.jongsma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 5/4/06, Jim Crumley <<a href="mailto:crumley@belka.space.umn.edu">crumley@belka.space.umn.edu</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> You don't have to anything special to use the iPod as a disk<br>> under Linux. Just follow the directions for using gtkpod (or any
<br>> other Linux iPod software). You just mount iPods as a removable<br>> disk to use them under Linux as either a mp3 player or removable<br>> disk. My fstab line is:<br>> /dev/sdb2 /media/ipod vfat noauto,user,sync 0 0
<br>><br>> Depending on whether you are attaching the iPod through USB or<br>> firewire, you may also need to load a kernel module or two.<br>><br><br>Just to add to that, if you're using a recent GNOME desktop (and maybe
<br>KDE too, I don't use KDE), the iPod should be automatically mounted as<br>soon as you connect it (at least it works for my shuffle). You can<br>still add it to /etc/fstab if you want, but it's probably not strictly<br>
necessary these days (I don't have it in my /etc/fstab). Of course,<br>if you want to access it from outside of a desktop environment, you'll<br>need to do the fstab thing.<br><br>Jonathon<br><br>_______________________________________________
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