Hi,

I've been working lately on a kernel hack that improves the behaviour of the player with regard to savings settings across reboots. Some earlier versions got posted in the Saving settings... thread, this one supersedes them.

The behaviour of the player is changed in the following ways:

1. Dual balance, loudness and beeps personalities. The player now remembers two different settings for these in the car and at home, similarly to the way volume is handled.

2. Preserved info setting when booting in the car. The player no longer switches to "info track" if the last setting was "info off" or "info line". No more buttons needed to get to the visuals!

3. Preserved last non-off info setting. Previously, if you select "info now&next", switch to "info off" with the bottom button, reboot (at home) and hold the bottom button again, you end up in "info track". Now you are taken to your last non-off info setting, i.e. "info now&next".

There's one side effect - some fast switching of info modes happens immediately after a reboot (and a few beeps if you have them enabled).

(Update: I've now silenced the extra beeps on reboot.)

Here are the kernel images:

mk2 kernel image
mk1 kernel image
patch against the 1.01 kernel

Refer to Tony's FAQ entry about upgrading the kernel.

A few more points:

- This is a hack. None of it really belongs in the kernel, but we don't have the source for the player, so...
- It's only supposed to work with the 1.01 version of the player (and I've only tested it on a mk2). It's virtually guaranteed to break once 1.1 is released.
- Neither empeg Ltd nor SONICblue have anything to do with this hack. It's not their fault if you crash your car while watching Funnelweb. Don't sue me, either . Please.

And let me know whether it works.

Borislav

Edited by borislav on 14/11/00 04:43 AM.