I bought a new Sandisk Sansa 8gb e200 yesterday.
Being naturally curious I wanted to see what Rockbox looke like, with a view to using it instead of the default GUI.
I followed the Rockbox instructions and all worked well - I had Rockbox up and and running on my Sansa.
When I plugged the USB cable in, the Sansa went to an image showing a USB cable but my PC didn't
see any new USB connection. My PC is running under Fedora Core 6 and usually all new USB devices are
automatically detected. Indeed, the Sansa was automatically detected by FC6 when it running with Sandisk's firmware.
I thought that this wasn't a great problem, as I had read on the web-site that Rockbox's firmware dual-booted
with Sandisk's. I went through the dual-boot process but got a message saying that a file was missing and couldn't boot.
By now I was panicking and I hastily read the website and found a page that said by going into recovery mode and adding a 'OF.bin file' it would dual-boot properly.
So, after some messing around I found how to go into recovery mode, which worked and got me a USB connection to the recovery mode partition. I added the OF.bin file and tried rebooting - nothing! It won't turn on. It won't reboot. Just a black, empty screen.
Having read MrH's website I think that I am in 'pre-bootloader'. When I do an 'lsusb' from my command prompt, I see:
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0b70:0003 PortalPlayer, Inc.
I have also downloaded and compiled the e200tool, but when I try and use it, I get;
[root@localhost e200tool-src]# ./e200tool i2cdump yy.rom
e200tool v0.2.3-alpha (c) by MrH 2006, 2007
Dumping i2c rom (address=87) range 0x0000-0x2000 to 'yy.rom'
Searching for device 6666:e200 ... 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 not found!
[root@localhost e200tool-src]#
[root@localhost e200tool-src]#
Can anybody help?