Setup Of C1000

[Replicant]

Sorry to bother you all with absolute noob-questions. I have searched through these forums for some time but have not found answers so far. The questions are:


1) How exactly do I install mplayer? Or, for a start, how do I install the bvdd module?
Doing so always crashes the graphical installer (with reboot) and the command line:
ipkg install bvdd_0.1.0-1_arm.ipk complains:

> ipkg install bvdd_0.1.0-1_arm.ipk
Unpacking bvdd...Done.
Configuring bfdd...//usr/lib/ipkg/info/bvdd.preinst failed. Aborting installation of bvdd

One could presumably try to install the module by hand, I just don't know if I could do it.

2) Nearly every other app I've tried (OK, just the games, I wanted to test the graphic capabilities of that machine...) insists of running either not at all (clicking the symbol) or in a weird configuration (as if just occupying only the lower third of the screen and completely garbled).  Starting with fullscreen support really does start the programs... only way to small and rotated to portrait mode. I will have another look in the C700 - C860 forums.

Any help would be greatly appreciated (apart from RTFM, since that is in Japanese...),

Cheers,
Sven

[Replicant]

Ok, update.

I COULD install the bvdd module manually. So now mplayer is actually running.
Still very small and in portrait mode, but I kind of remember reading about some command-line options which might fix that.

EDIT:
1) I can't get mplayer to play fullscreen, no matter what I do. Well, doesn't matter
2) I would still need some noob-help, a.k.a. known as: Why can't I install kino2?
    I am using the Trisoft english conversion (thanks, btw, for making it publicly available)
    and haven't upgraded the ipkg-package itself (I read somewhere that there are newer
    versions available?) or anything. So I suppose it should word (using the kino2-bvdd  
    package, shouldn't it?

[posco]

Ok, update.

I COULD install the bvdd module manually. So now mplayer is actually running.
Still very small and in portrait mode, but I kind of remember reading about some command-line options which might fix that.

EDIT:
1) I can't get mplayer to play fullscreen, no matter what I do. Well, doesn't matter
2) I would still need some noob-help, a.k.a. known as: Why can't I install kino2?
    I am using the Trisoft english conversion (thanks, btw, for making it publicly available)
    and haven't upgraded the ipkg-package itself (I read somewhere that there are newer
    versions available?) or anything. So I suppose it should word (using the kino2-bvdd 
    package, shouldn't it?
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Hi Sven,

Can you teach me how did you get this bvdd installed in your c-1000 finally? thanks very much

[Oneiros]

Same for me.  

For the Full screen problem have you tried running mplayer from the qkonsole it worked for me (but with mplayer w100 without the bvdd drivers)

Ok, update.

I COULD install the bvdd module manually. So now mplayer is actually running.
Still very small and in portrait mode, but I kind of remember reading about some command-line options which might fix that.

EDIT:
1) I can't get mplayer to play fullscreen, no matter what I do. Well, doesn't matter
2) I would still need some noob-help, a.k.a. known as: Why can't I install kino2?
    I am using the Trisoft english conversion (thanks, btw, for making it publicly available)
    and haven't upgraded the ipkg-package itself (I read somewhere that there are newer
    versions available?) or anything. So I suppose it should word (using the kino2-bvdd 
    package, shouldn't it?
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Hi Sven,

Can you teach me how did you get this bvdd installed in your c-1000 finally? thanks very much
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[Replicant]

Hi,

sorry, didn't check the thread for a few days. I am currently at work, so I can't give an extensive answer right away (will post more later), but basically what I did was to extract the ipk file and do the install manually (as specified in one of the files, can't remember).
This involved:
- Copying (or creating??? can't remember) the bvdd initialisation file to /etc/rc.d/init.d/
- Creating a soft link "ln -s /etc/rc.d/rc3.d /etc/rc.d/init.d/bvdd" in rc3.d (repeat for rc4.d and rc5.d)
- copying the bvdd.o module to lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/

Then I did an insmod to load the bvdd module.

I will check it again, when I am home (well,probably not to today but tomorrow) and post a more thorough Howto

[Oneiros]

Hi,
I have some other questions for a fellow C1000 user:
Did you see any improvement on the videos quality with the new drivers? because someone said that installing the drivers impaired his C3000 mplayer.
Did you managed to view a streamed video with mplayer?(from the pc's vlc for example )

thanks

Hi,

sorry, didn't check the thread for a few days. I am currently at work, so I can't give an extensive answer right away (will post more later), but basically what I did was to extract the ipk file and do the install manually (as specified in one of the files, can't remember).
This involved:
- Copying (or creating??? can't remember) the bvdd initialisation file to /etc/rc.d/init.d/
- Creating a soft link "ln -s /etc/rc.d/rc3.d /etc/rc.d/init.d/bvdd" in rc3.d (repeat for rc4.d and rc5.d)
- copying the bvdd.o module to lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/

Then I did an insmod to load the bvdd module.

I will check it again, when I am home (well,probably not to today but tomorrow) and post a more thorough Howto
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[Replicant]

Did you see any improvement on the videos quality with the new drivers? because someone said [div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=76739\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Hm, I have to admit I never even tried the other drivers, so I can't compare, really (that said,  I could have a look if there are other vo options also installed and try them out).
Didn't try streaming video, either.

Will look into it when I find time.

[Oneiros]

Did you see any improvement on the videos quality with the new drivers? because someone said [div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=76739\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Hm, I have to admit I never even tried the other drivers, so I can't compare, really (that said,  I could have a look if there are other vo options also installed and try them out).
Didn't try streaming video, either.

Will look into it when I find time.
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Finally I installed bvdd drivers like you said but when I tried to simlink it to rc3.d, etc...
It said files already exists. So I dropped it where it was, did the other things (insmod,...) and tried to run vlc anyway then I got the message, could not find /dev/bvdd so I just copied bvdd to /dev/ and now it works. It seems faster than using fbdev (won't work with mplayer though). Streaming works fine too.

[bil]

The reason you are having problems installing bvdd on the C1000 is because the package checks that it is being installed on the C3000 only. Get around this by opening the ipk and editing the file "preinst" in control.tar.gz - it should be as follows to run on the C1000:

Code: [Select]

#!/bin/sh

m_slc=$(cat /proc/deviceinfo/product)

if [ "$m_slc" = "SL-C1000" ]; then
    exit 0
else
    exit 1
fi

[bil]

I have tried to install newer versions of this software: mplayer-bvdd_1.1.0-1_arm.ipk & bvdd_0.2.0-1_arm.ipk, which does not check for machine version, but had no luck. I downloaded them from a Japanese site, so I have no idea whether they have known issues. Anyway, I just get graphics corruption in red on the left had side of my screen!?! Has anyone had more luck?

[steliosx]

can you provide the url so that I can also test it on c1000?

EDIT: never mind, found it:

http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie.../language_tools

some interesting info in there, lets check

update:

im getting the same error as Replicant


> ipkg install bvdd_0.1.0-1_arm.ipk
Unpacking bvdd...Done.
Configuring bfdd...//usr/lib/ipkg/info/bvdd.preinst failed. Aborting installation of bvdd

--
even though i tried " $ su # rm  /usr/lib/ipkg/info/bvdd.preinst " as it advises on the page [ http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie.../language_tools ]

any ideas?

[Replicant]

Thanks a lot for the hint. Worked liked a charm.
(Meaning I tar -xzf 'ed the package, untared the control.tar.gz as well changed the preinstall file and
afterwards packed it all up again. I will attach the modified bvdd file when I get home)

So now I have a properly installed bvdd.
Will try kino next...

[steliosx]

Replicant: which bvdd hint are u talking about? I still have problems with the bvdd v3 ipk! which version did you try and got it working?

[Replicant]

Replicant: which bvdd hint are u talking about? I still have problems with the bvdd v3 ipk! which version did you try and got it working?
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Which v3 ipk? I am using the bvdd file I found on elsix.org, I think, version 0.1.0-1.

So what I did:

Copy the bvdd_0.1.0-1_arm.ipk file to some directory
mv bvdd_0.1.0-1_arm.ipk bvdd_0.1.0-1_arm.tar.gz
tar -xzf bvdd_0.1.0-1_arm.tar.gz
tar -xzf control.tar.gz
jed preinstall  and changed the 3000 to 1000 as bil suggested (use vi or any other editor, if  you don't have jed)
tar -cf control.tar ./preinstall ./control
gzip control.tar
tar -cf  bvdd_0.1.0-1_arm.tar ./control.tar.gz ./data.tar.gz ./debian-binary
gzip bvdd_0.1.0-1_arm.tar
mv bvdd_0.1.0-1_arm.tar.gz bvdd_0.1.0-1_arm.ipk


and then it installed.
(Oh, one more thing: The ./ in front of the filenames are important when doing the tar -cf)

[steliosx]

thanks for the reply!

try getting the latest bvdd! its here:

Direct Link:
http://216.239.39.104/translate_c?hl=en&ie.../language_tools

Page where its located (scroll down):
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...Flanguage_tools