Idea #14393: Auto-detect Playstation Portable (PSP) and ovver useful options

Written by andersja the 14 Oct 08 at 15:58. Category: Hardware support.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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Today, when a PSP is connected to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), a PSP is identified as a portable music player and the same dialogue as an ipod is run (i.e. do you want to manage this in Rythmbox etc)

As any PSP owner will know, the PSP can do more than playing MP3s, so it'd be cool (although a "nice to have" if Ubuntu popped up a menu offering more sophisticated options (e.g. set date/time, reformat and upload photos, upload homebrew games (if appropriate firmware is detectable and present, offer link to URL to fix firmware if not...)

Edit title: should be oFFer, not ovver

Tags: hardware playstation portable psp sony

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andruk wrote on the 14 Oct 08 at 21:19

This would be great if it was automatically detected and then the appropriate software was loaded from the repos, kind of like the codec manager.

+1

Auzy wrote on the 14 Oct 08 at 22:34

I agree with andruk. Its a 2 phase problem.

The first is: Suggest APT packages for specific devices. If you are using a PSP then, you will be told that you need extra hardware for it to work, so that you don't need to scour the repo for compatible programs.

Secondly is a single Sony PSP tool that does what you need. However, I don't want to see Canonical wasting time helping one of the most consumer-unfriendly companies out there. In fact, its actually bad for us because all it will simply do is expand their influence more and encourage the development of more DRM-infested technologies. So thats why this idea gets +0. There PSP never sold that well either, so I severely doubt that officially supporting development of tools for it will increase our userbase either.

andersja wrote on the 15 Oct 08 at 10:40

Auzy: my idea is one of user-friendliness, not a political one.

I appreciate your input but I think in the end, Ubuntu should "just work" with whatever you throw at it (if we can help it): webcams, joysticks, Microsoft keyboards(!), ipods, whatever...

Auzy wrote on the 15 Oct 08 at 11:16

However, my question is .. Whats more important?

Full-on Android integration or the Sony PSP?
Better support of wlan devices or the PSP?
Better developer tools or the Sony PsP?
etc.

Thats why I voted +0. The sony PSP never really took off, and its market will do nothing but shrink. Whereas, with android for instance, supporting them properly now would allow us to take on the Android market.

However, my sidenote was that Sony is actually a VERY anti-linux company. But that wasn't the main decider in my decision. You know when a company is crap though, when even Apple refuses to implement blu-ray because of its terms.. And a lot of what sony does, is VERY questionable (can anyone say Audio CD's with rootkit?)

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