I wish we could send a patch to upstream for get a real solution to this as soon as possible, in that way we might have this issue fixed in Oneiric, any way, guys from libmtp told me:
Comment By: Linus Walleij (snirkel) Date: 2011-06-29 16:34 Message: This device does not appear to be MTP at all, rather it seems like it is implementing the USB Mass Storage protocol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_mass-storage_device_class Certain signs of this is a "lsusb -v" output showing things like this: bInterfaceClass 8 Mass Storage bInterfaceSubClass 6 SCSI bInterfaceProtocol 80 Bulk (Zip) - If you have problems having it recognized as a media player in e.g. music management applications, the usual solution is to add a simple file in the root folder named ".is_music_player" (remember the initial dot!) - The more complex and permanent solution that will solve the same issue for everyone, is to add the device ID to udev default detection scripts in /lib/udev/rules.d/40-usb-media-players.rules send a patch to the linux-hotplug mailing list for this, subscribe here: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-hotplug Direct mail: [email protected] - If you have problems connecting to the device, it can be a generic USB or USB mass storage issue, talk to linux-usb or similar people. so, I have sent an email for now with all this information --- Ubuntu Bug Squad volunteer triager http://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/801845 Title: archos 43 is not recognized by banshee as media player To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libmtp/+bug/801845/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
