Comments on: Creative Zen X-Fi and Ubuntu Linux – Solution

By: Peter Borgg

Peter Borgg — Sat, 02 May 2009 10:06:02 +0000

After fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty my Creative Zen 4GB works like a charm without Gnomad2. It has been recognized automatically and an icon on Desktop appeared. Now I can browse the little thing like any other drive or storage. Yeahh!!

By: Andrew Ampers Taylor

Andrew Ampers Taylor — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:11:05 +0000

I don’t have gnomad with my new 9.04 which I loaded afresh (formatted the disks) with the Release Candidate.

When I was thinking of loading the software I noticed a Creative Zen folder on my desktop and low and behold, it was my Zens internal folders.

When I load up a new version of Linux – I never back up the dot files as I want a fresh install. However, I do make sure that everything I use is on and attached to the computer.

Perhaos that is why it worked “out of the box”.

However I have a duff folder with my music in. I cannot access inside it, although I can still play the music.

Does anyone know how to hard reboot the Zen so that all data is zapped and I have a fresh machine? I’d appreciate it at ampers (at) gmail (dot) com.

Ampers.

By: GregE

GregE — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:21:48 +0000

Just a small point, you should not need to run it as superuser. On my Ubuntu machines it has run as a normal user for years. Try again without gksu and see what happens.

It is great stuff, especially when compared to the buggy bloat that is supplied to run on Windows.

By: joseph

joseph — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:35:23 +0000

note to get gnomad2 to allow you to transfer entire folders, you need to go to preferences and tick the box called “recurse into folders” or something like that.