I've built the tuner but when I fire my empeg up, the light on the tuner goes on but it flickers 'Radio Not Found' and continues, I can't get a startup log because my serial cable won't fit in the back of the sled I'm using. Help!!!

There's nothing obvious amiss, I'm using beta13 and have hijack as well.

Does it try for the tuner in AC mode? Did you try forcing DC?

First thing is to go back with a MultiMeter and double check every solder joint on the board i'd imagine.

Also check the tuner's contacts at the sled plug.

cheers
thorsten

I've forced it to DC, I'll just have to re-sweat all the joints.

Right had a good look at the board, a couple of joints re-done, but still no joy. Are there any diagnostic tests I can do, managed to get a serial connecter in,

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 kernel.



Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg51-hijack-v291 (root@tbird.localnet) (gcc ve

rsion 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Wed Jul 31 10:10:42 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 10101731)

Command line: mem=16m

Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS

Memory: 15076k/16M available (928k code, 20k reserved, 356k 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'

Found custom animation at offset 0x9877c

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 d0005780).

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: IC25N040ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive

hdb: TOSHIBA MK2018GAS, ATA DISK drive

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

hda: IC25N040ATCS04-0, 38154MB w/1768kB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63

hdb: TOSHIBA MK2018GAS, 19077MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63

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:d7:22:06:c

3

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.

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 init

empeg-preinit starting...

empeg-preinit complete

empeg 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



hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"

  player.cpp        : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.

empacman running as pid 21

/etc/preinit.d/M20emptris: /programs0/emptris: No such file or directory

/etc/preinit.d/M30emptriv: /programs0/emptriv/emptriv: No such file or directory



Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002

Vcb: 0x4086d000

! mp3_decoder.cpp   :1049:Failed to find valid sync after seeking to offset 5673

33, error=0xc0044000

Right, everyone repeat after me

HALLELUJAH!!!

It bloody works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What was the problem ?

Crossed over wire on the plug (doh!).

BTW, do you need a good signal to get RDS going?

I've gotten errors in RDS when I was in a weak signal area, apparent missed bits. I'm guessing it uses some weak form of checksumming. I assume a really weak signal simply wouldn't decode.

My G/F's Sony is quite good at picking up RDS, the empeg seems a little picky.