There are several methods to manually mount it. In that you are using PCLinuxOS, and I’m not familiar with the nuances built into that, you would want to ask in your forum for a “how to” manually mount a device. Heck, even in Ubuntu it has changed over the years.
Good that you got it up, though. :)
Thanks again! I found out how to manually mount the IPod. That will get gtkPod to recognize the device. I use “dmesg” at the command line and read what the IPod’s boot sector is — it’s like sdb1 or sdc1 (different each time). Then I go “mount /dev/sdb1 /media/IPOD” and — viola! — gtkPod sees the device.
However, neither Amarok nor Banshee will see the device unless I reboot the computer with the IPod connected. That sucks because only with Amarok or Banshee could I add or delete files to the IPod; gtkPod gave me errors when I tried to do this.
But that got me thinking, since I needed to mount the IPod as “root” (using “su”), maybe it was a permissions problem. Sure enough, I logged in to the desktop as “root” and was able to save and delete files on the IPod using gtkPod. But I know it’s not a good idea to be messing with things while logged in as “root,” so now I need to find out how to grant my username write permissions for the device when I mount it under “su”. So I’m almost there....