I think I may have reduced my GP2X to an expensive brick in less than 24 hours. Here's what happened, and if anyone can suggest any way to resurrect it, I'd be very grateful.
When I first got the unit, it would play MP3s and DivX videos off the SD card just fine.
Spent some time trying to get some games to work, with some limited success. After installing the SDL libraries, simple games like Lines and Bubbles were working.
Sometime later, I noticed that the music player would no longer play MP3s, even files that had played just fine initially.
I tried to update the music player using this firmware patch; http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,42,877
Since all it does is replace the music player and ebook viewer programs, I figured it was safe enough. Unfortunately, when I ran the .gpu file (all it does is cp the new files over the old ones), the machine locked up. After 5 minutes or so, I tried to reboot it, but it wouldn't come up - I just get a screenful of coloured lines.
Now, the 'GP2X' splash screen comes up if I have an SD card in the unit which contains this gp2xkernel.img kernel image file; http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,42,876
But, that's as far as it goes - it just locks up showing the splash screen. Without the SD card, or if the kernel image file is not on the card, I just get the coloured lines.
Is there anything I can do to fix this, or have I permanently destroyed my new toy already?
Any help would be very gratefully received.
David
When I first got the unit, it would play MP3s and DivX videos off the SD card just fine.
Spent some time trying to get some games to work, with some limited success. After installing the SDL libraries, simple games like Lines and Bubbles were working.
Sometime later, I noticed that the music player would no longer play MP3s, even files that had played just fine initially.
I tried to update the music player using this firmware patch; http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,42,877
Since all it does is replace the music player and ebook viewer programs, I figured it was safe enough. Unfortunately, when I ran the .gpu file (all it does is cp the new files over the old ones), the machine locked up. After 5 minutes or so, I tried to reboot it, but it wouldn't come up - I just get a screenful of coloured lines.
Now, the 'GP2X' splash screen comes up if I have an SD card in the unit which contains this gp2xkernel.img kernel image file; http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,42,876
But, that's as far as it goes - it just locks up showing the splash screen. Without the SD card, or if the kernel image file is not on the card, I just get the coloured lines.
Is there anything I can do to fix this, or have I permanently destroyed my new toy already?
Any help would be very gratefully received.
David
