[ILUG] A nice linux "friendly" mp3 player

[Frank Duignan]

Well, Santa brought me a samsung yp-z5 mp3 player (4GB).  With a few caveats
it runs fine with Linux.  It appears as a USB mass storage device and plays
oggs quite happily (For the first time I've really noticed that oggs sound
better than mp3's).  The only caveat I have may perhaps be just unusual to
the usb chipset I've got (so google implies).  If you mount the beastie as a
usb 2.0 device i.e. with the ehci-hcd module loaded it umounts itself after
a short while - even in the middle of a write.  Removing the usb 2.0 module
and relying only on the uhci-hcd usb module (low speed usb) solves the
problem though writes take a lot longer.  In spite of this I still recommend
the player and, as I said the problem may be specific to my usb chipset
By the way I've got an Asus/Via km400 motherboard. lspci -v produces this:
:
<snip>
0:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB
1.1Controller (rev 80) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V600/K8V-X/A8V Deluxe motherboard
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
        I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
<snip>
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) (prog-if 20
[EHCI])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A7V600/K8V-X/A8V Deluxe motherboard
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3
        Memory at ec002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=256]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
<snip>

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