[Wolves] Portable Ogg Players

[Adam Sweet]

--- Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 15/05/06, Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > Failing this I will have to live with my
> slightly
> > > > shit, pre-'iPod taking over the world'
> Creative
> > > Nomad
> > > > Jukebox MP3 player.
> >
> > > Nope...but did you manage to get the Creative
> > > working in Linux?
> >
> > Yes I did as it happens. I used Gnomad2 in Ubuntu.
> > Last time I used it there was a bug filed against
> it
> > as it wouldn't work as a regular user, you had to
> run
> > it as root.
> 
> Ah, no good as su?

Well it should be. I guess having to run as root is a
priviledge issue and su allows you Substitute User and
run with root priviledges. su - (with the dash) adds
root's environment variables too (ie /bin and /sbin
get added to your path amongst other things). sudo
should be able to sidestep the problem also.

This was an Ubuntu specific bug I think rather than a
Gnomad one if I recall correctly, I could be wrong.

> > I have no idea if all Creative MP3 players use
> this
> > same non-standard software interface (implemented
> in
> > Gnomad2 for Linux and by Creative's shit Windows
> app),
> > but you should be able to find whether your son's
> > player is supported by Gnomad on the website.
> 
> I have a feeling that, like many other Creative
> devices, they seem to
> pick the interface out of the random bag...

Apple and Sony are good at this too, b'stards.

> Thanks for that anyway, Ad.  It looks like I may
> have to go to the
> dark side and sort out Gnome ;-)))))))

Ahh well, you shouldn't have to install all of Gnome,
just locate the Gnomad 2 package for your distro from
your installation media or repositry if choice and it
should pull in the dependencies for you, which
admittedly might be most of the gnome libraries, but
not all ;) You will be able to run it from within KDE
is thats your desktop.

If you're running SuSE, I always found it a bit
shallow in the packages department, ditto Fedora, so
you might struggle for SuSE packages being a KDE
environment (until soon!), though I'm sure there would
be a Fedora one in an unofficial repo if not an
official one, as it is a Gnome environment by default.
Package depth is one area where Debian derivatives
have a definite edge.

Ad

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