Re: Kernel Compilation Woes [was Re: iPod Isssues]

On 29/06/06, Ylan Segal <ylan.segal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just adding more info to the thread:

I got more information from someone who's done extensive testing with
the iPod and different OS, kernels and even USB version. Quite
facinating. The plot thickens:

<quote>
I cannot speak authoritatively, however I can relay more of my saga
regarding my iPod and similar problems. I wrote to you before regarding
this if you remember.
I bought my iPod about 2 months ago. It is a 30 gig video. I have an
old HP machine, that had 4 USB ports. These were USB 1. In Breezy
these worked fine with the iPod. I used gtkPod and GpixPod without any
problems. I bought a USB 2 card to speed things up, USB 1 is very slow.
I installed the card and did a fresh install of Dapper. I plugged in
the iPod to one of the new USB 2 ports and it mounted correctly, however
when attempting to export a song(s) or writing to the iPod causes it to
crash and has on some occasions damaged my iTunes DB.
I tried the USB 2 port in XP, it works fine.
The USB 1 ports on my machine work fine in Dapper with the iPod, I can
sync and export, it just takes a while.
The same issue with Mandriva, Debian and Suse (all current versions). I
installed Slackware current with a 2.4 kernel and all is well with the
USB 2.0, however Slackware is not my forte.
I believe that in some USB 2 card there must be a hub built in, my
computer tech friend confirms this, and my hardware profile in device
manager shows that the card has a hub in it, built in.
Compiling a new kernel with EFT disabled did not work for me.
I am thinking that this may be a HAL bug, since HAL is not used in my
Slackware 2.4 kernel and that works fine.
Maybe we should compile a 2.4 kernel for Ubuntu or find a way to atleast
use the 2.4 method instead of HAL. What does 2.4 kernels do, modprobe
for everything?
Gotta be a work around for this.
</quote>

Eeeek - this is getting complicated.
I can tell you this much - my problems (that went away after disabling
EFI) occurred
even with USB 1

Before current HAL/udev different distros did different things.
Mandrake used udev and supermount. Others used automount and udev,
with or without supermount thrown in there too, and I'm sure others
did something else entirely.

There are quite a few changes between late 2.6 kernels and 2.4
Getting a 2.4 kernel to work in Ubuntu properly I think would be a
major effort....

Brian

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