I've been a lurker here in the forum since I've bought my n900 and now I've just registered in order to let you know that I'm sooo grateful to you to have ported rockbox. I'm a rockbox user since years and having it running on my mobile is awesome.
The real thing I'm missing at the moment is the ability of running it in a window and not fullscreen. I'm a wrong if I suppose that running rockbox that way could also benefit the general performance and maybe the sporadic audio skips I'm experiencing from time to time would be resolved?
So now I just hope that it will be implemented soon.
I am loving Rockbox so far but there are a few gripes that prevent me from using it on a daily basis:
- Cant adjust volume with volume button when N900 is locked
- No configurable keys (Eg: I prefer to use space as the pause/play key and also have a dedicated key to go to the now playing screen)
- No pause when I unplug headphones
- Japanese characters are displayed as squares (Sazanami Mincho font works but font is too small to read)
I have experience in C programming and might be able to help if I have access to the source code and details on how to compile.
- Cant adjust volume with volume button when N900 is locked
I tried looking into this for two hours. Looks like there's again some undocumented magic going on for making the volume buttons accesible while the device is locked.
IIRC unplugging the headphones sends a dbus event. Should be easy to implement. Better even would be a dbus server interface on the rockbox side and let headphoned handle this.
I tried looking into this for two hours. Looks like there's again some undocumented magic going on for making the volume buttons accesible while the device is locked.
I played around with "#define MCE_TKLOCK_MODE_CHANGE_REQ "req_tklock_mode_change"" as the one from the URL above is just a notification signal. Still didn't manage to get the OS to send me volume key events while the device is locked.
Perhaps there's some special handling activated by the name of the application, see the old fmtransmitter (libplayback) hack to output audio while silent mode is active.
I played around with "#define MCE_TKLOCK_MODE_CHANGE_REQ "req_tklock_mode_change"" as the one from the URL above is just a notification signal. Still didn't manage to get the OS to send me volume key events while the device is locked.
That link pointed to the prevent keyboard off method call. When called, it will allow for the volume keys to work, but you can't use them for rockbox's volume: maemo will automatically adj. the system volume.
if you get it to work, diablo can't do the same, so don't enable it there please
New release is in extras-devel. It contains quite some remarkable features:
Embedded album art support
Fixed bookmark handling
Prevent stuck up/down buttons on N900 with shared cursor keys
Fixed Last.FM scrobbler log file
New threading code uses less CPU
Fix rare hang on shutdown
Small fixes to the metadata parser
Update to rockbox SVN code
i am sorry but rockbox doesn't create bookmarks at all. it doesn't even ask for it althoug i have set the option to do so. maybe i don't know how to handle it right. may you help me?