I've tried to open emplode, but it won't find the player on USB or serial. It just started doing this. I think the problem might be with my computer (win98) and not the player, but maybe someone can help.



Booting the player while connected to Hyperterminal results in this:

"EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended"

and this:

"Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
Mounting second music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)"


I don't know if this is bad or not.







Trying to send logos with LogoEditor results in this error message:

In reply to:

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System Error

The keyboard driver specified by the KEYBOARD=line in the [386nh] section of the SYSTEM.INI file is incompatible with the current version of Windows.

To correct the problem, run Windows Setup again.

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Any ideas on what I can do to fix this problem?

Here is the entire boot up log from Hyperterminal:


empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com)
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 kern
el.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg50-hijack-v255 (root@tbird.localnet) (gcc ve
rsion 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Tue Apr 16 20:33:36 EDT 2002
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 40104155)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14984k/16M available (1012k code, 20k reserved, 364k 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 by UNIFIX
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 SA1100 UART
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 67706d65 'empg'
Scheduling custom logo.
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 d0004b80).
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...
hda: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: 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 (erik@vt.edu)

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:28:10:3
b
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
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_count=1
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
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To ComðStarting
player

player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta11 2002/02/08.
Switching to





Notice how it says "empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)".
But it's not the first boot. This thing has booted hundreds of times.

Greetings!

The warnings from the player are basically that you have reached the pre-configured maximum number of times you mounted the filesystem without a check. It is asking you to run fsck to clear it. You can either follow the FAQ entry, or perform a sync through emplode. Either will clear it.

The error 19 & 6 are normal and are nothing to worry about.

As to the keyboard driver error, it sounds like your system is a bit confused. Check your com port settings in logoedit - you might be sending to a com port that doesn't exist. Also, if you are doing something strange with plug and play (forcing values, etc.) your keyboard might be tied into the "standard" com port values. That is the only thing I can think of that would do that kind of thing. Doublecheck your settings in logoedit to verify which com port you are using.

Also, can you get to the empeg with hyperterminal??? (edit) Obviously you can. Did you have hyperterminal open when you tried logoedit? Also make certain the settings from hyperterminal and logoedit match.

I checked the com port settings, and it is set on the right one. The setting in LogoEdit is com1 which is what hyperterminal says it is on, too. I tried LogoEdit with Hyperteminal open and Logoedit by itself, but it does the same thing.

I'm not sure what you mean by plug and play and forcing values. I don't really know much about this stuff, but I try not to mess with anything unless I know what I'm doing, so if I'm doing it then I don't know about it!

My computer is always crashing and I constantly have to pull the plug on it to restart it, and for some reason I have a feeling that that has something to do with this.

That keyboard driver message is so weird that I can only suggest that your PC might have a virus. Are you running an up-to-date virus scanner?

Peter

Hmm... Possible. Another thought - what version of Windows are you running? 386eng in system.ini sounds like Win95 or lower. You might want to try and download another copy of logoedit - maybe you have a corrupted download. Has it ever worked?

We have Norton but it doesn't have a little icon in the right hand corner of the desktop, so I don't know if it just runs all the time or what. And I don't know if it is updated but I'm going to check on that and get it running.

I would not be surprised if I had a virus. Over the last couple of weeks the computer will just randomly pop up with the infamous blue crash screen, but you can't read anything it says. The characters are like scrambled/blurred, and there's nothing you can do but pull the plug,

Yeah i used to use LogoEdit all the time. I haven't used it until just now, when I tried using it to try and figure out what was wrong.

I have Windows 98.

Should I do what the error message says and run Windows Setup? if so, how do I run Windows Setup? Sorry i'm ignorant when it comes to computers.

Sorry i'm ignorant when it comes to computers

You must be referring to hardware, your knowledge of software seems quite good.

And no, I'm not taking a shot at you.

Greetings!

I didn't even think windows 98 used the system.ini files anymore. I thought that was registry...

Basically, running setup would either reinstall the operating system or reconfigure it. Either way, it is probably something that you do not want to do lightly.

Any luck with a fresh copy of logoedit? Have you rebooted the box?

We have Norton but it doesn't have a little icon in the right hand corner of the desktop, so I don't know if it just runs all the time or what. And I don't know if it is updated but I'm going to check on that and get it running.

If in the past the icon was there, and now it's not, thats a potential sign that BugBear has infected your system. Aparently it tries to kill off anti-virus programs, as well as firewall programs. Try this and see if it finds anything relating to the BugBear worm.

Alright, I don't know what it was, but it works now. It's weird because it wouldn't connect to Emplode the last couple of days (before I posted this thread), but now Emplode works and so does LogoEdit. I ran that program that you linked to, Drakino, and it didn't find bugbear, so I don't know what it was. But it works now. Thanks for the help everyone.

I guess my computer was just in a bad mood.

Yeah, I'm pretty proficient in a couple of programming languages, but I still have a lot left to learn.