Bug 67052

Summary: [udev rules] do not use MTP for Philips GoGear ViBE
Product: systemd Reporter: Paolo Borelli <pborelli>
Component: generalAssignee: systemd-bugs
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG QA Contact: systemd-bugs
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Paolo Borelli 2013-07-18 17:04:14 UTC
(apologies if udev rules bugs should be filed somewhere else, #gnome-os suggested using systemd's bugtracker)

Fedora-19's 69-libmtp.rules file makes the system use MTP for my old Philips Vibe Mp3 player.

Unfortunately MTP does not really work with this device, so I fixed making a copy of that rule file in /etc/udev/rules.d and commenting out this line in the copied file:

#ATTR{idVendor}=="0471", ATTR{idProduct}=="207b", SYMLINK+="libmtp-%k", ENV{ID_MTP_DEVICE}="1", ENV{ID_MEDIA_PLAYER}="1"

In this way the file gets mounted as a plain USB storage and things work.


Note that when connecting the device, it let's you switch between the two modes (MTP and mass storage), so ideally if udev could apply a different rule depending on the choice it would be perfect. Right now it always use MTP and that never works even if you actually pick MTP on the device (this may be a gvfs-mtp bug though).
Comment 1 Tom Gundersen 2013-08-06 15:13:39 UTC
This should be taken to libmtp as they ship the rules file.

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