Lavod portable music player is only detected as Mass Storage Device

[Oliver Gerlich]

Binary package hint: hal

When plugging in a "Lavod" MP3 player, it is only detected as USB disk (Mass Storage Device); i.e. it is not displayed with music player icon, and Rythmbox is not started automatically. The player is a 256MB MP3 player with the name "Lavod" on its cord. I have no idea what model it actually is. After testing, it seems to support MP3 files for playing and WAV files for recording (with built-in microphone). WMA doesn't seem to be supported.

This happens on a standard Ubuntu Dapper installation.

[Oliver Gerlich (ogerlich)]

Attached is a .fdi file which makes HAL detect the player as music player. It is based on the contents of the standard 10-usb-music-players.fdi . After putting this file into /etc/hal/fdi/information, restarting HAL, and plugging in the player, it was displayed with Ipod icon, and Rythmbox was opened.

Could you add this fdi info to the HAL package in Dapper?

[Oliver Gerlich (ogerlich)]

This bug report also applies to Gutsy: the player is still not recognized under Ubuntu 7.10, and the .fdi file from above fixes this.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package hal-info - 20080215-1ubuntu1

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hal-info (20080215-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot with updated hardware quirks and attributes.
    - Do not consider 0x05e3:0x0702 as a music player, since this chip is also
      present in some IDE drives like the Adaptec ACS-120 USB Enclosure.
      (LP: #182051)
    - Adds Sansa e140 music player. (LP: #134849)
  * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - 01_dell_cdrom_nopoll.patch: Re-introduce disabling of
      Dell Inspiron laptop CD-ROMs (GCC-4240N), since due to a weird hardware
      bug they cause extreme slowdown. (LP #48499)
    - 02_laptop_panel_brightness_in_hardware.patch: Some Thinkpads have ACPI
      brightness controls, disable laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware for
      them.
  * Add debian/patches/03_olympus_ds2.patch: Add Olympus DS-2 voice recorder
    (LP: #94924)
  * Add debian/patches/04_nokia5300.patch: Add Nokia 5300 music player
    (LP: #103831)
  * Add debian/patches/05_mobile_media_tech_usb.patch: Add No-name music
    player sold as "Lavod", with a chip from Mobile Media Tech.
    (LP: #114443)
  * Add debian/patches/06_samsung_ypk3.patch: Add Samsung Yepp YP-K3 music
    player. (LP: #120413)
  * Add debian/patches/07_asus_v6v_pm_quirk.patch: Use s3_bios PM quirk for
    the Asus V6V. (LP: #191737)
  * Add debian/patches/08_asus_p5l_quirk.patch: Add video quirks for Asus
    P5LD2. (LP: #190456)
  * Add debian/patches/09_lyra_th1501.patch: Add Lyra TH1501 music player.
    (LP: #157904)
  * Add debian/patches/10_sony_w880i.patch: Add Sony Ericsson W880i Walkman
    Phone. (LP: #117809)

hal-info (20080215-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Fixes a typo in 20-video-quirk-pm-lenovo.fdi. (Closes: #462012)
  * debian/patches/00_disable_mpio_hd300_detection.patch
    - Removed, merged upstream.
  * debian/control
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.7.3. No further changes required.

hal-info (20071212-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/00_disable_mpio_hd300_detection.patch
    - Added. Disable MPIO HD300 detection. The exact same usb controller is
      used in some common usb disks, causing very annoying false positives
      (Closes: #456675)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:11:42 +0100