[Gen8 General] MnF:
I was being dull with the xorg config, the french dev's had already fixed it and there is a suitable xorg in /etc/X11 called xorg.conf-ud waiting to be renamed and used rather than hand editing the config file like I did. I still cant use their recalibration method to fix the touchscreen, but my own evdev fudge seems ok. Enlightenment rocks too. I really like the eyecandy-ness of it and have a few really nice themes on with the desktop composting theme running under software, and having a real shell, with gcc and gdb and other tools to hand when needed is the icing on the cake.

I built a .deb of megatunix from the source, but I haven't had time to test it actually works yet if anyone's interested to try it since my megasquirt is set up to talk via bluetooth and not actually on my bike at the moment. Megatunix is the virtual dash/configuration program for the megasquirt open source efi ecu if you are wondering.

More on the mplayer, I tried to install gxine using apt-get and it barfed out, so I did some investigation and it was segfaulting in /usr/bin/xine-list-1.1 when it was asked to scan the plugins. I recompiled xine on the device itself (after installing gcc + make etc, it got a bit warm but its ok...) and stopped the core dump of xine-list and it installed cleanly, but then segmentation fault'd when I started gxine after scanning all the plugins in.

I also tried mplayer2 with its cleaner coding base but that core dumped too.

Ditto for vlc... but with that I just massaged the dpkg postinst script to remove the problem.

I ran gdb against the pre-compiled gxine and did a list when it segfaulted the first time, and it appeared to crash on the line where it included libc. Ive ran gdb against my compiled version and nothing, it doesnt even show as stopping in gdb, only in the kernel messages log.

Im going to try the omap fb driver over at debian archos again, I tried it the other night and stupidly forgot to take a backup and had to start from a re-install, but this time I am prepared. I think the above crash is linked to the video driver somehow but a hardcore kernel dude I am not...

My real aim right now is a fully working mythfrontend. I started to sort out the ebuild on the gentoo's for 0.24 and it built on two frontends, but the rest are being awkward and not had real time on resolving it yet. Maybe myth wont OOPS on video but I don't hold much hope out.

Ive posted a snipped oops over at the debian-archos site, but it seems quite quiet over there so here goes, any idea's always appreciated, I don't think the kernel guys will be interested in fixing it because the binary archos stuff is tainting the kernel it seems :-

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: Internal error: Oops: 817 [#118] PREEMPT

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: Modules linked in: tiwlan_drv fuse snd_soc_archos snd_soc_omap_mcbsp snd_soc_tda19989 sn

d_soc_wl1271 mailbox_mach mailbox musb_hdrc snd_soc_wm8988

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: CPU: 0 Tainted: G D (2.6.29-omap1 #1)

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: PC is at v7_coherent_kern_range+0x18/0x44

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: LR is at arm_syscall+0x1b8/0x2a8

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: pc : [<c004a5c8>] lr : [<c0047014>] psr: 80000013

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: sp : cfc6de80 ip : cfc6de80 fp : cfc6dfa4

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: r10: 42451818 r9 : cfc6c000 r8 : 00000000

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: r7 : 000f0002 r6 : 00000000 r5 : 42449000 r4 : 423aa000

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: r3 : 0000003f r2 : 00000040 r1 : 42449000 r0 : 423b0000

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: Flags: Nzcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user

-snipped for length-

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: Backtrace:

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: [<c0046e5c>] (arm_syscall+0x0/0x2a8) from [<c0042f00>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: r6:423aa000 r5:beed8000 r4:42240b08

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: Code: e3a02010 e1a02312 e2423001 e1c00003 (ee070f3b)

Dec 9 16:59:38 debian kernel: ---[ end trace 7e18aa480b962ef8 ]---

Dec 9 17:01:28 debian kernel: Internal error: Oops: 817 [#119] PREEMPT

Dec 9 17:01:28 debian kernel: Modules linked in: tiwlan_drv fuse snd_soc_archos snd_soc_omap_mcbsp snd_soc_tda19989 sn

d_soc_wl1271 mailbox_mach mailbox musb_hdrc snd_soc_wm8988

Dec 9 17:01:28 debian kernel: CPU: 0 Tainted: G D (2.6.29-omap1 #1)

Dec 9 17:01:28 debian kernel: PC is at v7_coherent_kern_range+0x18/0x44

Dec 9 17:01:28 debian kernel: LR is at arm_syscall+0x1b8/0x2a8

Dec 9 17:01:28 debian kernel: pc : [<c004a5c8>] lr : [<c0047014>] psr: 80000013

Dec 9 17:01:28 debian kernel: sp : cfb63e80 ip : cfb63e80 fp : cfb63fa4

Dec 9 17:01:28 debian kernel: r10: 42451818 r9 : cfb62000 r8 : 00000000

Dec 9 17:01:28 debian kernel: r7 : 000f0002 r6 : 00000000 r5 : 42449000 r4 : 423aa000

Dec 9 17:01:28 debian kernel: r3 : 0000003f r2 : 00000040 r1 : 42449000 r0 : 423b0000

Dec 9 17:01:28 debian kernel: Flags: Nzcv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment user