MKII (not a) 2.0b13+hijack (recent version, not latest though)

Ok, without the tuner plugged in, the empeg works fine.

When I got the tuner, I hooked it up, and it turned out the purple wire, which appears to supply power was loose. (But the tuner did work intermitently) This morning I got around to fixing it, and now the red light stays on solid when powered up. However, I have problems with the empeg locking up when I boot with the tuner plugged in. It worked ok this afternoon, but tonight on my way home, I had to yank the sled out and unplug the tuner again to get the empeg to boot. I repeated a few times in the car, and any time the tuner is plugged in, it hangs on "starting audio". I tried turning off restore visuals, and it still has issues.

I'm not sure if it's a bug, something I'm doing wrong, or some hijack issue. I'll try upgrading hijack, and some more troubleshooting variations tomorrow morning.

I'd check for more loose wires on the docking connector. You've already said you knew that one of them was loose. Now check all the others. Click here.

I had a problem with my first empeg. The hang on 'starting audio' was a fault with the DSP chip, sadly it was fatal. When I sent the unit back to support, it came back with a different serial number, if you know what I mean.

Yah that's what I noticed when I checked it, in addition to the other loose connector. I'll pull it out this week and solder the connections.

Hopefully I'll be able to listen to the radio soon. (I'm friends with some local DJs, otherwise I'd be happy with mp3s)

Marria01, Was your tuner lockup problem intermittent, like his is?

Sorry, I may have added to the confusion, my problem was pre-tuner. My original unit used to lock up as soon as the aux in was selected. Once the power was cycled the unit would hang when it got to 'Starting Audio', hence my interest in the post. From that point, only a new upload of firmware would actually make it work again.

I'll find my original post and get the serial log and show where the problem. Because he's having trouble with the tuner, I suspect it's the same problem.

Ahh, here we are....

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com)

If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let themspeak now,

or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins ofLinux!



e000 v1.04

Copying kernel...

Calling linux kernel...

Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, bootingthe kerne

l.

Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg50 (mac@aphex.internal.empeg.com)(gcc versi

on 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #5 Sat Dec 22 10:18:24 GMT 2001

Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11

NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel ComputerCorp.

empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 40104298)

Command line: mem=16m

Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS

Memory: 15024k/16M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 372k data, 4kinit)

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 00:49:111999 )

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

Could not find CS4231A (version=80)

empeg remote control/panel button initialised.

empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012

empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004600).

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 MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive

ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6

hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, 9590MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63

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 MAC00:02:d7:28:10:c

a

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.

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  player.cpp        : 550:empeg-car2.00-beta7

(internal) 2001/12/22.

Note the bit in bold, it's the same chip that does the aux in as well as the input for the tuner.

I'd do a serial log and see if the same error appears.

- I can make the empeg boot if I unplug the tuner (hasn't locked up in the past day or so) never needed to flash it.
- If I wiggle the wires going into the sled, it works, I can't figure out exactly which is loose.
- When there's 'no audio' you can still hear the radio, it's just faint.


So it looks like it's a combination of the loose wire on the tuner connector (fixed) and a flaky connection on the sled (up next). I need 30 hours in a day.