rgtaa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Peter > > Do you recommend that adapter in this link, I was > on amazon and looked at the reviews of it and tons > of people gave it 1 star. Depends what you want to use if for. Its okay for fluxbox + xterms but simple stuff like web browsing would become annoying quickly. It would be fine for occasioby petergunn - Debian
Phreon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > useradd -d al > > useradd: invalid home directory 'al' > > there is a /home/al directory I think something is up with our /home/al permissions. The following might help: chown al /home/al chmod 777 /home/al /etc/init.d/samba restart -PGby petergunn - Debian
Your post reminded me that my old Targus Universal Dock ACP50US has a USB2VGA port. Several years back when I bought it I could not get it working with Linux and it was repurposed as a make-shift charging station for my cell phone and other gadgets. I just give it a quick try with my dockstar and after a little tweaking... it works! Quick howto: Create /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "Serveby petergunn - Debian
Justin Laughlin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Any ideas on what we could be doing wrong? > Thanks, Justin Check dmesg output to make sure your picframe is being recognized as USB storage rather than a scsi CDROM. Devices that are detected as a CDROM are not hackable - but I haven't seen any DP-152s like that yet. Does the following write textby petergunn - Displays
FYI - My USB powered speaker had awful distortion when I powered it off the dockstar. Turns out I had a ground loop between the USB port used for power and the USB audio adapter. To fix I replaced the 3.5mm audio cable with a Kensington Noise-Reducing AUX Audio Cable (K39203US) which has uses transformers to isolate the current. Cable is a little long and cost as much as the speaker but itby petergunn - Debian
40,000+ radio stations here: http://www.shoutcast.com and zillions more elsewhere on the net. Just use: mplayer -playlist 'URL' # and remember to put the URL in quotes Example: mplayer -playlist 'http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=560860' Not sure about the remote control from Windows thing - I only have one Windows based PC and I just use that for gamesby petergunn - Debian
Have a look at: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,2340,2351#msg-2351 -PGby petergunn - Debian
FYI - mplayer also works well using streamripper as a relay: Install streamripper: apt-get install streamripper mkdir /root/streamripper Connect streamripper relay to radio station: streamripper URL -r 8000 -d /root/streamripper/ -A Run mplayer against the relay: mplayer http://127.0.0.1:8000 # change 127.0.0.1 to dockstar IP if playing on another LAN computer You can then connect otby petergunn - Debian
The following will test all the mirrors and create a basic sources.lst with your fastest mirror... apt-get install netselect-apt cd /tmp netselect-apt squeeze mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.orig && mv ./sources.list /etc/apt/ apt-get update -PGby petergunn - Debian
sandbasser, I just noticed that I have the same problem as well after reboot. The issue appears to be that the USB sound card is becoming card 1 rather than card 0 (the default device). You can see this using... aplay -l To fix you need to edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf Old: # Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard options snd-usb-audio index=-2 New: # Allowby petergunn - Debian
Figured out how to fix mplayer volume controls: echo 'ao=alsa' >> ~/.mplayer/config echo 'mixer-channel="Master"' >> ~/.mplayer/config Use '/' key to decrease, '*' to increase. rtgaa, you can ssh to the dockstar to run/control mplayer or use VNC from another PC. It also seems to have support for LIRC which can allow you to use iby petergunn - Debian
rtgaa, that all looks good so not sure what's wrong. Try starting alsa... /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart If that doesnt fix mplayer, then try running alsamixer and see if adjusting anything helps... alsamixer -PGby petergunn - Debian
To install lsusb: apt-get install usbutils You can find packages by doing something like "apt-cache search lsusb" Yes, you need to do the following before plugging in your usb audio adapter and trying to run mplayer for the first time: apt-get update apt-get install alsa-base alsaplayer alsaplayer-text alsa-utils madplay mplayer Getting late here - back tomorrow :-) -PGby petergunn - Debian
Post the output from: aplay -l for x in /proc/asound/{version,cards,devices,timers,pcm}; do echo $x:; cat $x; done -PGby petergunn - Debian
Hi rtgaa, there was a mplayer libst2205 patch posted for the Picframe but it wasnt accepted. It might still work against the mplayer source. I dont really have time to try though - screen is tool small, video would need to be transcoded and (most importantly :-) I already have st2205 running on my Picframe (then again I do have several now... hmm) That Amazon dongle looks pretty good, but itsby petergunn - Debian
The following iradio bash script seem to work ok for BBC radio channels: wget http://yjl.googlecode.com/hg/Bash/iradio chmod +x ./iradio ./iradio I thought you have to be in the UK but apparently not... -PGby petergunn - Debian
Fixed it! I used the alsa "softvol" feature and bumped up the buffer sizes from a config I found on the net: I created the following /etc/asound.conf file: pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "softvol" } pcm.dmixer { type dmix ipc_key 1024 slave { pcm "hw:0" period_time 0 period_size 4096by petergunn - Debian
I bought a $2 usb audio adapter from DX. I'm thinking I may have been better going with the cheaper one. # lsusb Bus 001 Device 114: ID 0c76:1607 JMTek, LLC. audio controller Says "HY554" on the back. Under Ubuntu 10 on x86_64 it works great, but on the Dockstar/Squeeze the audio is extremely 'scratchy' with alsa. Googling around I see recommendationsby petergunn - Debian
PeterC, good to see the touchscreen is working (the DS-90U doesn't have one). Try changing the Fluxbox theme to "Debian" from the Fluxbox menu and see if that helps with the font sizes. If not, you might want to try adding a DisplaySize setting to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf -PGby petergunn - Debian
rat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well, as far as the LCDs go. I have my DP151SX > hacked and after considering what I'd need to do, > I think I prefer the Shift3 (even despite the > battery icon) if only because it's the simplest > solution and requires no modifications or > additions for me to have something that works. (I &by petergunn - Displays
rgtaa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > (not on topic -- Peter I have a thread on > restoring save nanddump back onto Nand , do you > know how to do that, you seem so knowledgeable > about linux stuff, if you have some type of > answer, you can answer in that thread, and if you > don't know about that stuff, no problem). Sorry not mby petergunn - Displays
rgtaa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I can't get displaylink to blink, is that suppose > to? or fast scroll. > > > # start up st2205term instance for Displaylink > $ST2205TERMDIR/st2205term \ > --font=giant \ > --dlo \ > --keyboard=/dev/input/event0 \ > --fontdata=$ST2205TERMDIR/fonts.txt \ >by petergunn - Displays
rat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > indicator pops up about every 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 > blinks and immediately goes away as that 1/2 blink > becomes 1.till an option to keep in case anyone > wants it there for reminder that they have an > active console running, though. Doh! Must be on some sort of timer. Dont think that can be fixed unless youby petergunn - Displays
OpenVPN is worth a try... See: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,2408,2408#msg-2408 -PGby petergunn - Debian
rat, new st2205term v0.08 is uploaded - faster/better/etc. Supports fast(er) smooth(er) scrolling on Displaylink and... wait for it... blinking cursor support. Can you give it a whirl an see if it fixes your battery indicator ? Command line option for blinking cursor is --blink - I'll update the web page is a little while. -PGby petergunn - Displays
rat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > From what I can make of it, the DP152 is probably > like the Shift3, just thick enough to be lightly > wedged into the spot to sit on the USB plug if you > don't mind having the Dockstar facing > "backwards"... Can you or Peter confirm? Yes, this is correct. Would be nice to find a solutionby petergunn - Displays
Hi rat, adding a flashing cursor seems reasonable enough. It will have to be off by default though as updating the the Picframe requires pushing new data onto the screen and the 'incremental update' feature of libst2205 doesnt seem to work so a full screen refresh is required. This is not a huge deal for the Dockstar as its processor is really fast and the Picframe screen is prettyby petergunn - Displays
> The "screen" program is confusing. I think not all the keys are mapped in, and I can't start startx from it. screen is worth trying to learn because its amazingly powerful (for all terminals, ssh, etc.) - you can run different commands in the different 'screens' and switch between them using keys, or program keys to launch commands, etc. Unfortunately, you wontby petergunn - Displays
rtgaa, I v0.07 uses built-in fonts that come in the file fonts.txt and it cannot run without knowing how to draw characters on the screen so the new "--fontdata=./fonts.txt" is mandatory. You'll have to add this to your /etc/rc.local in order to get it to run like v0.06... # directory where st2205term binary resides ST2205TERMDIR=/root/st2205term-0.07 # extra directory to searby petergunn - Displays
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/1900277/arm-celebrates-20th-birthday http://armdevices.net/2010/11/27/arm-is-20-years-old-today/ Happy Birthday ARM! :-) -PGby petergunn - Debian