Sorry for the late reply.... life interrupted (life does that)
Anyhow, no I was not able to get this to work any longer since 1.02. I gave it a shot again last night.
1st = loaded 1.02 developer from empegs site self exe. went fine.
2nd = loaded your latest build using the latest Tfabris logo editor.. got smiley face and all looked ok as it did before when all of this used to work for me.
3rd = booted player in car, held down button to display funnelweb and then removed and reinserted the player.
the player acts just as nothing has changed, boots but back to info mode as before.
I should also mention that this exact same method worked for me before so i don't think there is an issue with the downloaded file but more of an issue with my player.

What can I get to you to help debug?
Is there something I can check for you internally using terminal server?
I understand what I was missing before with the Displyserver stuff so I will try to install that again but I hoped the graphics persistant settings would keep working. *sigh*

Thanks for all you help. it is most appreciated.

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life interrupted (life does that)

Life always gets in the way, annoying that.

What can I get to you to help debug? Is there something I can check for you internally using terminal server?

Not that I don't trust Tony's editor, but it's easiest to eliminate that first - check whether it's really running my kernel.

Connect the serial cable, run HyperTerminal, set to "Direct to Com1(or Com2)", 115200 bits per second, no parity, 1 stop bit, flow control none. Power cycle the player, you should see lots of stuff scroll by. Near the beginning there will be a line that says "Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg41 (borislav@aero) ...". If it's not my kernel it'll say something else instead of "borislav@aero".

If it is my kernel I'll have to send you an image with more debugging output to figure out why it's not doing anything.

Borislav

3rd = booted player in car, held down button to display funnelweb and then removed and reinserted the player.


AFAIK, the player doesn't store it's settings when it's removed from the sled while playing. It should be set in standby mode first by switching off the ignition.



Frank van Gestel

Ok it appears that your kernel is installed. I included the entire boot log with this reply.
I also tried every concieveable boot combination i could think of. It's having troubles... still no persistant settings. everything else seems ok.

Thanks again for your assistance.
Note:
The only problem I ever had with my player was the disk full issue that prevented me from syncing.
that post is under bug reports as "EEK 1.02rc1 Stage 5 error "
(sorry i don't know how to link posts.)
not sure if this is even related but I thought I would include the info.

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AFAIK, the player doesn't store it's settings when it's removed from the sled while playing. It should be set in standby mode first by switching off the ignition.

I believe it stores the settings at least every time you change the info mode, which is the only thing I care about in this case.

Borislav

(sorry i don't know how to link posts.)

Aaahhh... finally a technical question I know how to answer!

When you reply to a post, look in the upper right area of your screen and you will see a highlighted phrase "markup in your posts". Click on this, and you will go to a page that gives clear and simple instructions for adding 's and the like, and also how to bold, italicise etc, set links to other posts, use different color text, and so forth.

Tony Fabris had to show me how to do these things, so you're not the only one who didn't know.

tanstaafl.

"There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"

Observed new behavior…
I’ve seen this at least three times now….
#1 start vehicle and player comes up as Info mode.
#2 hold the down button to get visuals (funnel web).
#3 “strange part” After one or two songs completes, in the middle of the next song, it looks as if it processes a some kind of script (to fast to read) and then flips back to Info mode.
#4 Puzzled, and making sure I’m not nuts, I hold the down button again to get visuals back.
#5 Player stays in visuals and no longer acts up. (at least for several hours)

So, it seems like as if your script is running late, or seems out of sync as I have noticed the script like behavior before at boot when persistant settings used to work for me.
Does that help any?
Thanks

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So, it seems like as if your script is running late, or seems out of sync as I have noticed the script like behavior before at boot when persistant settings used to work for me. Does that help any?

Yes, it does. Sounds like whatever I'm using to detect that the player has fully started is triggering way late.

I haven't forgotten about sending you a debugging kernel, just busy. I should get around to it tomorrow, please bear with me a bit longer.

Borislav

No worries....
Take your time....
I just think it's really cool how this Whole Empeg community helps one another.
Just glad that I can participate.

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New Log...

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A version of the persistant settings patch for 1.03 final is now available. This version fixes a bug in the previous patch that prevented it from working correctly with songs which don't have the Artist field set.

Patch and kernel images are on sourceforge. The other patches included in these images are 1disk (no changes needed since 1.02) and Frank's ir_trans patch. When a voladj patch for 1.03 surfaces I'll compile images with it too.

Have fun,
Borislav

Borislav, have you had a chance to update this for 2.0b3? It looks like some of the kernel ir code has been moved around and the old patch does not apply cleanly. I mis this "functionality".

-Mike

I'll second this request :)

Tom

Borislav, have you had a chance to update this for 2.0b3?

No, and I probably won't get a chance for another 2-3 weeks (currently on a business trip and I'll be neck deep in work after I go back). I'm also hoping there'll be another beta out by the time I try to update this hack since the behaviour of info modes across reboots in 2.0b3 is somewhat bizarre.

Borislav

Hi Borislav.

How did you do this patch for 1.03 back then? I seem to recall it had something to do with the partially linked binary of the player itself. Or am I confusing something here?

cu,
sven

How did you do this patch for 1.03 back then? I seem to recall it had something to do with the partially linked binary of the player itself. Or am I confusing something here?

No, it was a kernel patch only. It tapped into a bunch of different drivers:

- the power driver, to figure out if we in the car
- the state driver, to read the last info setting
- the display driver, to figure out when the player has started up
- the input driver, to feed initial button codes to the player

Regardless of the initial info setting, the kernel patch changes it to
'info track' (when in the car). Then it starts waiting for the player to
start, looking for the big horizontal line in the 'info track' mode (on
each screen update in the display driver). When it sees that line, it sticks
a few button presses in the buffer of the input driver.

This is from memory, let me know if you need more details and I'll look at the
patch. I haven't looked at the 2.0 kernels at all, some things have probably
changed since 1.03.

Borislav