| Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Bruce Tenison |
| Portions Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 David Nelson |
| Thanks to David Nelson for guidance and the usage of the scanner.txt |
| and scanner.c files to model our driver and this informative file. |
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| Mar. 2, 2000 |
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| CHANGES |
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| - Initial Revision |
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| OVERVIEW |
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| This README will address issues regarding how to configure the kernel |
| to access a RIO 500 mp3 player. |
| Before I explain how to use this to access the Rio500 please be warned: |
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| W A R N I N G: |
| -------------- |
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| Please note that this software is still under development. The authors |
| are in no way responsible for any damage that may occur, no matter how |
| inconsequential. |
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| It seems that the Rio has a problem when sending .mp3 with low batteries. |
| I suggest when the batteries are low and you want to transfer stuff that you |
| replace it with a fresh one. In my case, what happened is I lost two 16kb |
| blocks (they are no longer usable to store information to it). But I don't |
| know if that's normal or not; it could simply be a problem with the flash |
| memory. |
| |
| In an extreme case, I left my Rio playing overnight and the batteries wore |
| down to nothing and appear to have corrupted the flash memory. My RIO |
| needed to be replaced as a result. Diamond tech support is aware of the |
| problem. Do NOT allow your batteries to wear down to nothing before |
| changing them. It appears RIO 500 firmware does not handle low battery |
| power well at all. |
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| On systems with OHCI controllers, the kernel OHCI code appears to have |
| power on problems with some chipsets. If you are having problems |
| connecting to your RIO 500, try turning it on first and then plugging it |
| into the USB cable. |
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| Contact information: |
| -------------------- |
| |
| The main page for the project is hosted at sourceforge.net in the following |
| URL: <http://rio500.sourceforge.net>. You can also go to the project's |
| sourceforge home page at: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/rio500/>. |
| There is also a mailing list: rio500-users@lists.sourceforge.net |
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| Authors: |
| ------- |
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| Most of the code was written by Cesar Miquel <miquel@df.uba.ar>. Keith |
| Clayton <kclayton@jps.net> is incharge of the PPC port and making sure |
| things work there. Bruce Tenison <btenison@dibbs.net> is adding support |
| for .fon files and also does testing. The program will mostly sure be |
| re-written and Pete Ikusz along with the rest will re-design it. I would |
| also like to thank Tri Nguyen <tmn_3022000@hotmail.com> who provided use |
| with some important information regarding the communication with the Rio. |
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| ADDITIONAL INFORMATION and Userspace tools |
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| http://rio500.sourceforge.net/ |
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| REQUIREMENTS |
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| A host with a USB port. Ideally, either a UHCI (Intel) or OHCI |
| (Compaq and others) hardware port should work. |
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| A Linux development kernel (2.3.x) with USB support enabled or a |
| backported version to linux-2.2.x. See http://www.linux-usb.org for |
| more information on accomplishing this. |
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| A Linux kernel with RIO 500 support enabled. |
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| 'lspci' which is only needed to determine the type of USB hardware |
| available in your machine. |
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| CONFIGURATION |
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| Using `lspci -v`, determine the type of USB hardware available. |
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| If you see something like: |
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| USB Controller: ...... |
| Flags: ..... |
| I/O ports at .... |
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| Then you have a UHCI based controller. |
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| If you see something like: |
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| USB Controller: ..... |
| Flags: .... |
| Memory at ..... |
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| Then you have a OHCI based controller. |
| |
| Using `make menuconfig` or your preferred method for configuring the |
| kernel, select 'Support for USB', 'OHCI/UHCI' depending on your |
| hardware (determined from the steps above), 'USB Diamond Rio500 support', and |
| 'Preliminary USB device filesystem'. Compile and install the modules |
| (you may need to execute `depmod -a` to update the module |
| dependencies). |
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| Add a device for the USB rio500: |
| `mknod /dev/usb/rio500 c 180 64` |
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| Set appropriate permissions for /dev/usb/rio500 (don't forget about |
| group and world permissions). Both read and write permissions are |
| required for proper operation. |
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| Load the appropriate modules (if compiled as modules): |
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| OHCI: |
| modprobe usbcore |
| modprobe usb-ohci |
| modprobe rio500 |
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| UHCI: |
| modprobe usbcore |
| modprobe usb-uhci (or uhci) |
| modprobe rio500 |
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| That's it. The Rio500 Utils at: http://rio500.sourceforge.net should |
| be able to access the rio500. |
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| BUGS |
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| If you encounter any problems feel free to drop me an email. |
| |
| Bruce Tenison |
| btenison@dibbs.net |
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