[arch-general] iPod HOWTO?

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On Jun 21, 2012 10:31 AM, "David Benfell" <benfell at parts-unknown.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> This is a facepalm moment. I'm utterly failing to find the correct way
> to do this.
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> The Arch wiki entry is https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPod
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> It's out of date because "HAL has been deprecated for a while now."
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> Like an idiot, I managed to overlook that. And I think I got HAL sort
> of working. But Banshee gets "permission denied" when I try to copy
> music onto by iPod.
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> I don't even have a clue which way to go with this. As near as I can
> tell, only root can write to the iPod, but I had the notion that I
> should run Banshee as my regular user. I can't even change the
> ownership of the mount point:
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> graton# chown benfell:users /media/iPod
> chown: changing ownership of '/media/iPod': Operation not permitted
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> What now?
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chown as root