🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:03:32 +0000, Mark wrote:

> Does anyone know which portable MP3 & MD 
> players work in mandrake?  

Probably no one knows all of them,  but you'll find the most complete
list at www.linux-usb.org.  See the "supported devices list".

If a device has no driver,  but uses a flash card of some sort for
storage,  you may still be able to use it by getting a flash card
reader/writer.  Some MP3 players use proprietary formats on the cards,
but some don't.

> As far as I can find out none of the recent models work as they need 
> specific drivers built into the kernel for the device which are not 
> available yet.

Not quite:  the drivers don't have to be built into the kernel.  They
can be built separately,  and loaded by the kernel you're using now.
Sometimes you can find them already built for you.  But,  even if you
can't,  building a few modules is a much smaller operation than
building the whole kernel.

> In other words they aren't simply plug & play usb devices.

Sure they are:  they're just fussy about who they'll play with  ;-)

Ran