Hi everyone,
I'm hoping that someone can help me solve my empeg woes and bring some life back into my commute. My empeg suffered a fall some months ago which broke the VFD fill nipple. The unit was still in good working order without a display until recently, and now it powers up for a short time, then shuts down. Before it shuts down the front panel LED is steady on for 10 seconds and the drives spin for 20 seconds. After that everything is quiet and dark except for the red LED on the motherboard. The unit is a Mk2 running v2.00 and emphatic and a newish version of Hijack. Any advice on how to proceed would be appreciated. This community has already helped me through 2 repair jobs and I am very happy to see that it is still going!
Thanks,
Norm

Serial port..

Oh, and the VFD can be replaced on the displayboard if you want. Various people have spares and whatnot.

Cheers

Couldn't you see what the screen was trying to say via weblite?

I guess a boot log would be the first thing to check, though.

Okay, my bootlog is as follows:
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empeg-car bootstrap v1.00 20000601 (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 kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v488 (hijack@rtr.ca) (gcc version
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Fri Feb 15 10:29:26 EST 2008
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c0c00000: wrote ffffffff, read e28cc001
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 7, serial number 80000459) 12MB DRAM
Command line: mem=12m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 10944k/12M available (992k code, 20k reserved, 328k 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)
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 0x99b78
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
show_message("Hijack v488 by Mark Lord")
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 d0004280).
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...
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080
hdb: IC25N040ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaaaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555
hda: IBM-DARA-218000, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IC25N040ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DARA-218000, 17301MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=35152/16/63
hdb: IC25N040ATCS04-0, 38154MB w/1768kB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63
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:d7:10:01:c
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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.
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
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
Timezone: Atlantic/South_Georgia
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
Using non-standard cache size 74 (adjustment 10)
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x404ad000
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Nothing jumps out at me as being strange, but I'm certainly not an expert on this sort of thing.
Also, while I was messing around I discovered that through Hijack's web interface, I can stream files off of the player, but I can't get the unit to actually play anything. (not in the car or plugged into my home stereo)
-Norm

Since you have Hijack installed, it means you can run this.

Try it out and let's see what you get.

How is that different to weblite?

Sorry- no empeg here to poke around and figure things out. Just a quick question.

It's got a faster refresh time than weblite. :-)

It's uni-platform, so it works only for some people rather than for all of us.

Are you sure the unit isn't simply in standby mode? Tap the top button on the front once after it finishes powering-up.

It's working again! When I went to bed yesterday after installing weblite and trying to use it, the front panel was still dark and the weblite display was showing no activity. I was frustrated with it and went to bed, forgetting to unplug the empeg. When I woke up, the front panel LED was steady on, so I decided to give it another go. I tried to start a playlist through weblite and got the visuals to start on the weblite display. I moved the router to the next room so I could try the empeg on my stereo while it was still on the network. It was sweet music to my ears, literally. I've already tried it in my truck and it seems to be working perfectly. Thank you everyone for your help!
Thanks,
Norm

I would be very interested in obtaining one of these. Anyone who has one please let me know what you want for it.

Yay! Glad it worked out.