Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre and kindle

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:56:01 -0500
> Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 16, 2013 3:52 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:21:03 -0500
>> > Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Has anyone had any success with app-text/calibre on Gentoo? On
>> > > Ubuntu, it picks up that I've plugged in a device and happily
>> > > allows me to manage it. On Gentoo, it doesn't seem to notice a
>> > > thing. For now, it works fine as an ebook reader, but not so
>> > > great for managing devices.
>> > >
>> > > $ eix calibre
>> > > [I] app-text/calibre
>> > >      Available versions:  0.9.6 ~0.9.12 ~0.9.13 {{+udisks}}
>> > >      Installed versions:  0.9.6(05:46:37 PM 01/14/2013)(udisks)
>> > >      Homepage:            http://calibre-ebook.com/
>> > >      Description:         Ebook management application.
>> > >
>> >
>> > What kind of Kindle?
>> >
>> > I use calibre here a lot on my Kobo and it
>> > JustWorksLikeItShould(tm).
>> >
>> > The other half has a Kindle - the fancy one with backlit cover and
>> > full physical qwerty keyboard and she says that one works just fine
>> > here too.
>> >
>> > But, both the Kindle and the Kobo present as usb-storage devices.
>> > Google says the new-fangled Kindles are MTP.
>> >
>> > I'd say your problem is with mtp rather than calibre or Kindle. And
>> > to fix that you need sys-fs/jmtpfs from poly-c overlay per a recent
>> > thread here sometime in the last month
>> >
>> > --
>> > Alan McKinnon
>> > alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>> >
>> >
>>
>> 1st gen. Even shows up as /dev/sdb.
>
>
> If calibre isn't running and you plug the Kindle in, does the desktop
> recognize the device and mount it and do all that routine stuff
> properly?
>
> If yes, what is the nature of the problem per error output and logs etc?
> Is calibre configured to use the proper device type for that Kindle?

Not running a full DE, but rather x11-wm/awesome, with gnome-base/gdm
for a session manager. I'm also running with -gnome in my USE flags.

Same window manager worked fine on Ubuntu 12.04 (though I was using
either slim or lightdm as a session manager).

Checking to see which would be easier to emerge, nautilus or gedit, so
I can see how their file open dialogs respond to hotplug events.

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