[RootbeaR]

Hello people.

Using PCLinuxOS with Amorok.

Amorok tells me it needs the command to mount and then unmount usb in order to connect to Creative Zen MP3 Player.

Can someone tell me how to do this please?

Three USB on front and 2 or four more on rear of tower, will it, or should it auto-detect which one to power? Or will it power them all?

Thanks,
RootbeaR

[saikee]

You can always "hotplug" any USB device to a PC in any vacant port you wish to.

To know if the hardware has been detected you issue this command in a root console (click terminal, type "su" followed by root password).

fdisk -l

You can choose to issue the command before and after hotplugging the USB device and it should show up.

The inofrmation in the "fdisk -l" tells you the device name as seen by Linux. PClinuxOS has a modern kernel calling all hard disks sda, sdb, sdc etc. So your internal hard disk will be sda. If the Zen player is the 2nd disk then it will be seen as device sdb1, possibly in fat32 filing format (Partition Type C or b).

It is possible that PCLinuxOS will mount it automatically if the device is hooked up before the boot up but in any case you can always mount it manually yourself by commands in root console

mkdir /mnt/here
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/here

To umonut it you must finish everything with the USB device first so that it is not accessed by the Linux. Again in root console use the command "umount" like

umount /dev/sdb1

or

umount /mnt/here

[RobLinux]

When it is plugged in does KDE notice and pop anything up? It should detect your USB device automatically.

When I plug something into USB port or insert a CD-ROM, then the kernel notifies HAL-udev system and a device gets created in /dev and there's a notification generated, which allows the GUI apps to respond. Going into "media" section in file manager and right clicking on the device frequently offers a mount option.

So what happens when you don't have Amorak running?

If you can access the device, without Amorak doing anything, then /bin/true (reports success) may be a good choice. You can also frequently add an option into /etc/fstab to permit a user mount, and then you could tell Amorak to "mount /media/usb" & "umount /media/usb" (perhaps a directory like /media/ZenMP3 would fit better) but I'd rather choose the device from /dev/disks/by-id as that name should be unaffected by other hotplugs or disk upgrades.

[RootbeaR]

Thanks guys.

I'll definetly be keeping this in mind for future.

Got thinking I must be doing something wrong. PCLOS is too easy to need to do this manually.

It was charging its battery already whether Amarok was running or not, so usb was working.

Aha! I needed to tell Amarok what type of device to look for under the devices tab.

Told Amarok to look for a MTP device and the problem was solved.

Thanks again guys,
RootbeaR.