Niath

Great news to the next alpha for the upcoming Ubuntu 8.04!

To everyone who got interested in my last post, this version already ships all the mtp stuff needed to connect to those new creative mp3 players. I’ve worked a bit myself on it, by merging the latest libmtp.

Another great feature is the disk manager. From now on, whenever you plug in a new disk, you can graphically set it. Not aware of fstab? Not needed anymore!

I’ve bought yesterday a Creative Zen. As a player, it is really good, as you can see in many reviews.

Despites that, I’ve had a hard time, managing to get it to work in my laptop with Ubuntu. Finally, I’ve came up with a solution. The comunication with the device must be done via MTP, so I’ve had to use the latest libmtp to connect it. The package included in the repositories is too old, so you have to download and compile it yourself. Here’s how.

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