Ok, so I'm running a hacked copy of leopard Kalyway I think, running 10.5.1, my ipod shows up in finder, I can see it, but I cannot see it in itunes, any help?

me too

Do you have issues with any other USB2 devices?

Post any relevant output from dmesg after you plug it in.

No, have used my multifunctional (scanner/copier/printer) as my nokia mobile phone as well.
iTunes tells me to reinstall ipod drivers from osx cd but I am quite sure my osx "distro" does not have it as a choice during installation.

Reinstall iTunes maybe?

I have just installed the itunes update but...

What iPod have you got!
How can you Think your running a hacked copy of leopard... you either are, or your are not..

Search the Apple support area for help.

Think Mark

The problem is that I formatted my ipod to Mac format and then it stopped working

But you didn't answer my question.... What iPod do you have?
1St Gen, Mini, Touch... We need to know.

5.5g

You can find support on the Apple Website..
It will be the same whether you run a hacked OS, or a legit OS (X).

You can find the link above, in one of my posts.
It also helps if you research the problem first, before posting and clogging up the server space...


Think Mark

sry i didn't reply sooner, got busy, i know my computer is hacked, i'm just not sure which version, its 10.5.1, probably kalaway. i've got a 5.5 g ipod, i checked support.apple.com, and they don't even list this as a possible problem, what is happening to me is i can see my ipod as a disk in finder ( i chose to let it do that on my windows machine), but it cannot be found in itunes, i have no problems on my windows machine with my ipod, i just want to use the hackintosh i got instead, its better. no USB problems, just this box. and this was a last resort on where to go to find out why, i did look on the internet elsewhere first, and ipod forums, nobody seems to know anything about this.

when u plug it into ur windows machine, it works fine? plug it into the windows machine and pull up itunes and check what file system its formatted for (windows/mac) if its formatted for windows then it wont read on ur hackintosh machine.

Reinstall iTunes...

Which version comes with the distro you are using?
Download 7.6.2 from Apple, everything should be fine.

Put you iPod into disk mode: Hold Menu and Select button(the middle circle) right just about the Apple Logo appears, quickly hold the Play/Pause button and the select button.
Then, a OK to Disconnect picture should appear, now connect it to iTunes, see if that works.

If that doesn't, plug you iPod to the computer then restart you computer while the keep the iPod awake, it should recognize your device

And for the Windows formatted iPod, when I connected mine, it just said "optimizing iPod for Macintosh" or something similar, so that must be the issue.

I found on the Leopard CD an installer that says iPod Support, downloading the latest version should include that.