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My first experience with Rockbox

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rockbox-newbie:
As you can understand from my nick, i am a Rockbox newbie. I won my 30 GB iPod video in a lottery and received it today. The first thing i did with it was, of course, to install Rockbox.
Since i never used any iPods before, i tried to mount it to my machine as /dev/sda1 and it didn't work. Then as /dev/sda and it also didn't work. I foun out that i should mount it as /dev/sda2 and it mounted perfectly.
Then i installed Rockbox as described in manual, and it worked perfectly.
Then some troubles appeared.
I changed language to Russian and saw that default font does not contain Cyrillic letters. Then i downloaded and installed the font pack and found a font that contains Cyrillic letters.
Well, Rockbox works well for me. I tried most of the plugins, tried to read text files and view photos. Sometimes Rockbox hangs the player, but it is easily restarted by pressing Select plus Menu and the settings are not lost.
Of course, as i advance in using Rockbox, some questions to the community will arise.
The first one is:
Why when i try to perform dosfsck on my iPod, dosfsck hangs and needs to be stopped manually by Ctrl+Z? All my flash drives are checked by dosfsck without trouble, but iPod does not. It then mounts and unmounts perfectly, though.
The second is:
iPod has a composite video output pin on its connector, which, by using a special cable, can be used to connect the player to a TV and display photos on a big screen. Does this output work in Rockbox?
The third is:
Where do i download ZXbox? I haven't found it on the site.
And the fourth:
Is there a way to connect a keyboard to iPod in order to compose texts on it?
Thanks in advance!

lights0ut:
1. no clue what you're talking about, sorry

2. rockbox does not make use of the TV out capability, you'll have to use the apple OS for that.
    http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodAccessories

3.ZXbox is a plugin, it is included in Rockbox : About ZXbox

4. I know of no such accessory

Hope that you enjoy rockbox.

rockbox-newbie:
Well, but that page only descripts what ZXbox is and does not have any download link.

bascule:

--- Quote from: evilg123 on June 09, 2007, 11:40:49 AM ---...ZXbox is a plugin, it is included in Rockbox : About ZXbox...
--- End quote ---

rockbox-newbie:
No, it is not included in plugin directory, maybe it is not ported to my model (iPod video)?
Also a question, does there exist any html viewer for Rockbox which can view html files with images?

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