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@cosmito - I have no way to test PAL configurations, but prior to booting you may edit the /usr/local/bin/win* scripts (changing NTSC to PAL). You might need to add margins if you can't tune your TV output for displayable image (the example shows margins of 5 pixels): export TV_MARGIN_X=5 export TV_...

In the ps2linux-distro directory: http://www.4shared.com/dir/8728191/2a84ce3b/sharing.html This is a pre-configured PS2-Linux (hdd/NTSC) installation with initial password "changeme". It mingetty autoboots into X-Windows (NTSC configured), Fluxbox 0.9.14 window manager, right click for app...

my linux boot partition is /dev/hda1 and swap partition is /dev/hda2

Hope this helps

http://playstation2-linux.com/project/s ... ase_id=440

ps2fdisk has the ability to create the linux partition alongside other ps2 hdd partitions (Aligned Partition Allocation - APA compatible)

ps2mame is much better as it uses the ps2pad, but is very quick. I notice it only works with older games. The xmame 106 was just to determine that the last x-windows version of mame was compileable (barely) on ps2-linux. It plays galaga and the like fine, but in a smaller x-window than the full-scre...

@belek666 - Try this - http://www.4shared.com/dir/8728191/2a84ce3b/sharing.html "ldd mplayer" shows 35 shared libs so you might want to make sure they are all there. You can either "make install" or just run from the main directory "./mplayer" It is the latest version, ...

Thanks. The sound driver shows the non-dma version when the RTE/dmarelay.irx is not loaded, and I use the blackrhino 2.2.21 kernel. I think you might find it interesting that I can get the blackrhino kernel to load with the RTE/dmarelay.irx when I use kernel parameter ide=nodma. This parameter is no...

@Megaman - Thanks for the new release's autoboot feature. Makes bootup a "start and go to the kitchen for a beer, come back and login" experience (ULE is set to autostart kloader). I have a kit and have compiled RTE, and just wanted to note that in using the Ubuntu 8.04 VMWare image (the o...

I can see where writing from scratch would be a daunting task, even if the SPU is well documented. Are there versions of sdrdrv.irx with debug symbols? Early releases, etc? Googling sdrdrv.irx produces plenty of hits.

Would the sound modules be hard to replace with free kernelloader modules? Is the coding difficulty high or nigh on impossible? ;-)

Sometimes it is better to go into service mode for your television and adjust the settings there. Most televisions have this setting, and this especially applies to analog televisions where they come to the factory adjusted with the image off the edge of all sides. A Google example to find the speci...

The Logitech EX110 Cordless Keyboard and Mouse works for me in both kloader and PS2-Linux/BlackRhino. It's $25 right now from tigerdirect.

To work with APA, I merely ran HDLoader 0.8b from ULaunchelf 4.12 on a hard drive with no existing partitions causing it to format the drive for APA. Other tools exist to do this, but this is what I used. I created a BWLINUX directory on my MC0, downloaded the ps2fdisk utility from http://playstatio...

I don't know if the usb-storage module is avail on the older 2.2.1 blackrhino. Try the newer version. usb-storage.o is in /lib/modules/usb on this version: http://playstation2-linux.com/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12 2.2.21-pre1-xr7 2002-Jul-05 Examine archive contents kernel-binaries-2.2.21-pre1...

if you already have your /etc/fstab entry setup (standard blackrhino), and you have created a mount point (/mnt/mc00), you enter (as root or sudo) "mount /mnt/mc00". What is not mentioned is that the BWLINUX (all capital letters) directory on your memory card is fixed as the root directory...

mounting usb should be something like this:

modprobe usb-storage
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 -t vfat

I'm doing this without my PS2 handy, so may not need the modprobe...

Firefox works thanks to ppietro but is a memory hog. I'm hopeful that Firefox 3 will be less memory intensive, but am not holding my breath. I mostly use and recommend Dillo and have compiled dillo-0.8.6-i18n-misc-20070916, but the precompiled version on the playstation2-linux.com site is fine for s...

jimparis - Thanks for the correction!

Have you tried the mirror?
http://psp.jim.sh/svn/

For your example it would be:
svn export svn://psp.jim.sh/svn/ps2/trunk/ps2toolchain

So finally I saw a xwindow yesterday! But my mouse was not recognized lol I found out that in XGSConfig the mouse links to /dev/usbmouse but I could only find mouse in /dev/ so I made a symbolic link and that at least helped to start xwindow. So I will have to find a way to set up my mouse or bette...

Anyway tomorrow I will give the apa ps2fdisk way a try. Tested if ps2fdisk would work, but after cp ps2fdisk and gzip -d it it turned out that I am not able to run the file?!? What did I do wrong? I got the *.gz from playstation2-linux.com as mentioned above! I don't know how to help you with dsele...

Hi, yesterday I finally got my network set up and dselect all the updates I could get (90MB turn into about 300MB), but sdr or startx are not recognized as commands in linux?!? Is there a different methode to start X on blackrhino linux? Hopefully I can find out this evening. Afterwards I will pack...

Ok. I think the only thing that changes is that you don't have to delete all partitions and use the apa fdisk tool. As I am using a new hdd instead of my old one no data loss will harm me anyway. Is there a gui for blackrhino on their deb server? I will try to set up network if dhcp is not working ...

REMEMBER to backup your APA partitions with Winhiip or the like first! Play with partitioning at your own risk! I installed BlackRhino from scratch using Mega Man's instructions, the kernel and initrd.gz from his download site, on a drive which already was formatted APA with many partitions (in fact...

I loaded the SMS CDVD driver, but I only see an empty directory of a video DVD (checked this with pressed DVDs and burned DVDs). PS1 CDs and PS2 DVDs are working. I only tried my existing DVDs without extra files. Did someone know if SMS shows the VIDEO TS folder or other DVD video specific files? ...

Source for smscdvd driver *should* be on the web svn on this site, but the link hasn't worked for me lately. Here's another link where you can get the source. Just click on "sms", then "drv", then "smscdvd" in the source tree: http://www.koders.com/info.aspx?c=ProjectIn...

@J.F. - sorry, worth a shot. I'll try both the kit and kloader if I can get my VESA setup working this weekend and report back. I like using my USB memory stick to transfer data. Do you use something similar after booting with kloader to access your USB memory stick? Copy the 2.4.17-mvl21 directory ...

I got a magic error originally too when loading one of my kernels off of the memory card. I over-wrote it and it worked. Try copying again and load the kernel from USB. As I haven't repeated the error, this could have been a corrupted copy.

Your kernelloader works fine with SCPH-50001 (v9), SCPH-30001 (v3), and SCPH-39001 (v7). This weekend I used your installation instructions for a from-scratch install (except replaced use of fdisk with ps2fdisk) on the SCPH-39001. No problems were found. I did not see any responses to the use of the...

To get around the initial Nov 1999 time/date on system, it was easy to compile and install the latest version of ntpd from source on the PS2 (openssl required first) - LDFLAGS=-ldl ./configure; make; make install Then vi /etc/ntp.conf for server and ntpdrift (google ntp.conf for working examples) th...