Howto use Creative Zen Mirco in Hoary

**Lord Illidan** · July 21st, 2005

10x vassie!!

**tUrtleAE86** · August 18th, 2005

I installed according to Vassie's instructions, modified to install gnomad2-2.8.0.2 instead. But, I get the following error when I try to run using "sudo gnomad2".

Code:

gnomad2: error while loading shared libraries: libnjb.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I already have libnjb installed though.... any ideas?

**vassie** · August 18th, 2005

Try these two debs's

http://195.153.177.76/upload/ben/deb...8.0-2_i386.deb
http://195.153.177.76/upload/ben/deb...2.2-2_i386.deb

I noticed version 2.2.1 of libnjb is available, but there is only an FC4 rpm, and the last time I tried the FC4 ones, it didn't work

Ben

**tUrtleAE86** · August 18th, 2005

Originally Posted by vassie

Try these two debs's

http://195.153.177.76/uploads/ben/de...8.0-2_i386.deb
http://195.153.177.76/uploads/ben/de...2.2-2_i386.deb

I noticed version 2.2.1 of libnjb is available, but there is only an FC4 rpm, and the last time I tried the FC4 ones, it didn't work

Ben

Works great! Thanks!

**Royal2000H** · November 26th, 2005

I installed from Adept (Kubuntu's Synaptic), and I can't get it running...

When I was using Windows, I put the PlaysForSure firmware so that I can use in on windows media player, instead of the standard creative firmware. Is that the problem?

Also, most my files are licensed with msn music because my friend somehow got me over 1000 codes for songs on msn music.... any way to play those songs in linux? and do i need the creative firmware for gnomad2 to recognize my creative zen micro?

**dodongo** · November 26th, 2005

Originally Posted by Royal2000H

I put the PlaysForSure firmware so that I can use in on windows media player, instead of the standard creative firmware. Is that the problem?

Also, most my files are licensed with msn music because my friend somehow got me over 1000 codes for songs on msn music.... any way to play those songs in linux? and do i need the creative firmware for gnomad2 to recognize my creative zen micro?

To the first question, the answer is YES. To my knowledge, the PFS firmware is unsupported in Linux. If you re-flash the unit with the Creative firmware, you'll have better results.

As for the songs on MSN music... I can't speak to that with any authority, but my guess is that you're going to have problems with that, as they're tethered to Windows Media Player and MSN.

**dmartin** · January 28th, 2006

As for the root issue, I followed the instructions here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...27#post1184427

You won't have the two files mentioned. Create them, and make their contents what is posted.

They worked perfectly for me, and I no longer need to be root to access my Micro.

As for the prior instructions, yes, making usb a+w is not a good idea at all, in terms of security. There's very little (maybe nothing) on a Linux system that should be writeable by everyone. At the very least, you should have made it writeable by a certain group (maybe a "usb" group) and then add users to that group. Still, I'd recommend the instructions on the page provided, as they work very well.