Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre and kindle

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Emerged gedit, whose file/open dialog detected a remove event just
fine. And when I plugged the kindle back in, it appeared in both
gedit's dialog--and calibre noticed it.

And I forgot...this is a Kindle Fire. Not a straight-up Kindle.

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:wq