I've been playing around with visuals in the office, mostly to avoid burnin of the playcount stat. And I was hitting the visuals button on the remote when the player crashed, but after re-starting and loading the database & playlists the display screen was just a single horizontal line across the middle of the display and "Info: none", like you would get when changing the info mode. That lasts for a second and then the player (software) restarts, and that's all that happens now, even after power cycling.

I'm guessing that one of the visuals doesn't work quite right, and that visual is stored as the active visual in flash or somewhere. Any way to change that from the command line? Or any other ideas?

details: 3a7, hikack 413, stock memory(16MB) , reserve-cache=16, all files are oggs, probably around 192 kbps. The ctrl-t test passes fine.

captured the following via the console

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Starting player
Timezone: PST8PDT
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

Using non-standard cache size 84 (adjustment 16)
player.cpp : 564:empeg-car 3.00-alpha7 2004/02/13.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1490 Feb 13 2004
Vcb: 0x4060e000
player(115): memory violation at pc=0x020e6778, lr=0x021224d8 (bad address=0x00010017, code 2)
pc : [<020e6778>] lr : [<021224d8>]
sp : bd9fea58 ip : bd9fea08 fp : bd9fea6c
r10: bd9ffcf8 r9 : bd9ffd08 r8 : bffffee0
r7 : bd9ffd0c r6 : 021e52c0 r5 : 00000005 r4 : 0000ffff
r3 : 00000000 r2 : 00000000 r1 : bd9fea40 r0 : 00000005
Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: C0F5D17D Table: C0F5D17D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<020e6760>] from [<02002484>]
r5 = 021E04A0 r4 = 0000FFFF
Function entered at [<02002468>] from [<02031454>]
r5 = 021E04A0 r4 = 021E24D8
Function entered at [<02031438>] from [<020344a8>]
r6 = 00000000 r5 = 021E04A0 r4 = 021E24D8
Function entered at [<02034494>] from [<02066a94>]
Function entered at [<02066a64>] from [<02067160>]
r6 = 021E24D8 r5 = BD9FFD08 r4 = 021E24D8
Function entered at [<02067130>] from [<02067454>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<0206728c>] from [<020671a8>]
r10 = 020E6804 r9 = 021E24D8 r8 = 00004011 r7 = 00000080
r6 = 00000011 r5 = BD9FFD4C r4 = 021E24D8
Function entered at [<02067198>] from [<020e68d8>]
Function entered at [<020e68a0>] from [<020e6890>]
r5 = 021D85A0 r4 = 021E24D8
Function entered at [<020e6804>] from [<021208f8>]
r5 = 021E24F0 r4 = BD9FFE40
Function entered at [<02120830>] from [<021571cc>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<02155940>] from [<02120674>]
r8 = 021E534C r7 = 021E5338 r6 = 020E6804 r5 = 00000005
r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [<021205c4>] from [<021571cc>]
r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<021d687c>] from [<02124098>]
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Abnormal player termination
Player received signal 11
Starting player

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mv /empeg/lib/visuals /empeg/lib/visuals.x
lets the player run but now when I try to 'q' to the shell prompt I get this:

Starting player
Timezone: PST8PDT
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

Using non-standard cache size 84 (adjustment 16)
player.cpp : 564:empeg-car 3.00-alpha7 2004/02/13.
player(140): memory violation at pc=0x00000000, lr=0x020c76e8 (bad address=0x00000000, code 2)
pc : [<00000000>] lr : [<020c76e8>]
sp : be7ffc70 ip : 02195080 fp : be7ffc84
r10: 00000000 r9 : be7ffca8 r8 : 4054e6cc
r7 : 00000000 r6 : be7ffca8 r5 : 4054e568 r4 : be7ffcb4
r3 : 4054e7fc r2 : 00000000 r1 : be7ffc70 r0 : 4054e7fc
Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: C088D17D Table: C088D17D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<020c7698>] from [<02017d3c>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<02017a00>] from [<020e68d8>]
r10 = 020E6804 r9 = 4054E5BC r8 = 0000240A r7 = 00000080
r6 = 0000000A r5 = BE7FFD38 r4 = 4054E5BC
Function entered at [<020e68a0>] from [<020bdbfc>]
r5 = 021D85A0 r4 = 4054E568
Function entered at [<020bdbd0>] from [<020e6890>]
r4 = 4054E5BC
Function entered at [<020e6804>] from [<021208f8>]
r5 = 4054E5D4 r4 = BE7FFE40
Function entered at [<02120830>] from [<021571cc>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<02155940>] from [<02120674>]
r8 = 021E534C r7 = 021E5338 r6 = 020E6804 r5 = 00000005
r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [<021205c4>] from [<021571cc>]
r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<fffffff4>] from [<bffffbc0>]
Function entered at [<022080b4>] from [<00000019>]
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Abnormal player termination

Upgrade your player to v2.01-final, and also have a look at the config.ini file on the player to see if it has "grown" unduly large due to bugs in the older s/w.