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
>
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