The Sansa differentiates between songs transferred via MTP mode and those transferred via MSC mode. The demo songs are all in the MTP area and thus you won’t see them when looking at the device in MSC mode. But it is possible, to mount the device in MTP mode also. You just have to install… Read More: SanDisk Sansa MTP mode »
To work with the FUSE in Rhythmbox, you have two choices: MTP mode or MSC mode. The MTP mode is the Media Transfer Protocol which the Windows Media Player uses. There’s a plugin for Rhythmbox which lets the player show up and you are able to manage the player from there. The MSC mode is… Read More: Rhythmbox and Sansa »
The Sansa is very picky about what file to play and what not. The demo video has the following format: Encoding According to this post the Any Video Converter should be able to convert videos for the FUZE. The Settings are:
The Sansa’s have different features for different countries/regions. E.g. the Japanese radio frequencies ranging from 76 to 90 MHz are partly used for Police radio and thus it is not allowed to tune to these forbidden frequencies. SanDisk achieved this by removing the Japan region from the Radio region selector. In European models of the… Read More: SanDisk Sansa Feature Bits »
Firmware: sksapps.com (Latest is 0.41)
To update the BIOS without Windows, install UNetBootIn and use it to put FreeDOS on a flash drive. Now extract the e.g. v.3305.zip to it and reboot the machine. Press F12 in the right moment and select your USB flash drive from the list. Press ENTER when you see the boot: prompt, then launch the… Read More: BIOS Update on the Acer Aspire One »
Chipset: Atheros AR2425 Change Regdomain The WiFi card comes set to regdom 0x65 (World/ETSI C) which limits the channels to 1..11. (iw list shows channels 12..14 as disabled.) In Germany, there are also channels 12 and 13 which are unusable this way. But there’s the tool ath_info which can read and write the EEPROM on… Read More: WiFi on the Acer Aspire One »
Model: JMicron JMB38x PCI Express to 1394a OHCI and Memory Card Host Controller Enabling the device The cardreader device seems to be hidden on bootup and you have to enable it by issuing: This didn’t work on the commandline but inside the rc.local, my 16GiB SDcard in the left slot was recognized fine. Multicard-reader driver… Read More: Card Reader of the Acer Aspire One »
There exist several manuals on how to install Linpus from a recovery DVD. Basically you just boot the recovery DVD on some PC, select “create rescue usb key” and insert a 2 GiB (or more) usb key. ⚠️ 1 GiB won’t work – the recovery image is slightly larger ⚠️ After the recovery stick has… Read More: Install Linpus Linux on the Acer Aspire One »