Hello All...

I was running version 3.00 alpha 10, HiJack 400. Tried to use jEmplode to send songs to the player, but it kept stopping halfway through and just sitting there. I decided to upgrade to the latest HiJack using jEmplode and it hung too, just like when sending songs to the player. This caused my firmweare to be corrupt so I reflashed with v3.00 alpha 11. Now the player boots but hangs and locks up after loading the database/playlists. No response from buttons. Screen animations halt. I did an fsck and did a manual delete/rebuild of database. Still same problem. I've got some errors shown with the serial_notify with what looks like one song. Log below...

Thanks,

Jeff


empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg55 (peter@tatu) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #15 Mon Jul 25 18:52:48 BST 2005
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read 9afffff0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102985)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15024k/16M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 372k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
POSIX conformance testing
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 20706d65 'emp '
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004780).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, 28615MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, 28615MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:26:0b:a
9
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_co
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initempeg init 0.8
I see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
Mounting second music partition
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
player.cpp : 587:empeg-car 3.00-alpha11 2005/07/25.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1485 Jul 25 2005
Vcb: 0x4075c000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N6
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x4e0
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TYou Keep Runnin' Away
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ A38 Special
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ GRock/Pop
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N6
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x4e0
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TYou Keep Runnin' Away
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ A38 Special
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ GRock/Pop
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 170:@@ S1
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4e0 0:03:21

Bad Track?

I occasionally get "bad track"-like behavior with the Alphas on a perfectly good track. I can usually skip to the next track if I press the next button repeatedly while it finishes booting. After that, a reboot and I'm back up and running.

To be honest, you'd be better off on A11 anyway. Not sure what the issue is here: do you have any third party apps on requiring cache setting mods?

OK, I flashed back to release 2.00 and rebuilt the database. All went well. I then reflashed to v3.00a11 and it seems to be working now...

So is the world of alphas...

Thanks guys,

Jeff