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We are very happy to announce the first developer pre-release of OpenDingux. OpenDingux is intended to replace the current (legacy) Dingux, offering a more modern and standardized distribution that is actively maintained. We try to make the transition as easy as possible and we need help from Dingux application developers and porters for that. Therefore we made this pre-release, so you can check whether your Dingux software works under OpenDingux as well.

This pre-release is not intended for end users. If you are not a developer, you can of course still test the pre-release, but don't expect everything to work smoothly and don't be surprised when some applications crash on startup. Please inform us of your test results, especially the things that don't work, so we can fix them before the first end-user release.

Release notes and downloads: http://www.treewalker.org/opendingux/.
That page also contains links to relevant documentation pages on the Dingoo Wiki. Especially the development page and FAQ are useful when porting applications from legacy Dingux to OpenDingux.

Thanks to Ignacio Garcia Perez (booboo) for creating Dingux, Lars-Peter Clausen (larsc) for writing most of the drivers for Qi Hardware's Ben NanoNote that we re-used in OpenDingux and everyone on #dingoonity on freenode IRC who helped with ideas and testing (especially zear).

The OpenDingux core developers are currently Paul Cercueil (Ayla) and me, Maarten ter Huurne (mth). There is still a lot of work to be done, so we can always use more developers and testers.

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1.this cant use "select+start+power" to reboot and cant use "power" button to poweroff dingoo..

The shortcuts in OpenDingux changed a little bit. Please read the Power Switch Daemon part of the OpenDingux FAQ

2.why gmenu2x is not see as before?

gmenu2x was entirely moved inside the rootfs. This is so end users don't need to be troubled with the installation of gmenu2x, instead they just copy the rootfs on the card and OpenDingux already starts in the graphics mode.

6.i just add ps4all link..but inter ps4all folder auto exit explor...this if because ps4all have too many files?..

Perhaps you have some chinese filenames in that directory. I remember a similar behaviour of gmenu2x in certain directories of the built-in memory where the preinstalled chinese files were (and yes, OpenDingux supports the NAND for read only access)

Hi!
 I tried it and it works fine but the tv-out tool(opendingux version) has some issues...It works but when i try to go to another link or section  it seems to skip some of them and jumps to another section or another program and this makes it feel choppy and slow.

This is a known issue which should be fixed in the next OD release: https://github.com/mthuurne/opendingux-kernel/issues/9

For a quick access to tv-out mode, use power + Y. You can launch a game from the LCD and then press power + Y to activate the tv-out. Once the game is over you can press power + Y again to get back to the LCD mode.

oups...didn't know that .thx

3.can this support chinese font?

Not at the moment, but it would be good to change gmenu2x to support Chinese fonts in the future. I don't have an idea of how many different characters we would need. Is it feasible to do a bitmap font for Chinese or would we have to switch to freetype so we can use truetype fonts?

Quote from: wy_scorpio on September 05, 2011, 05:56:31 am

1.this cant use "select+start+power" to reboot and cant use "power" button to poweroff dingoo..

The shortcuts in OpenDingux changed a little bit. Please read the Power Switch Daemon part of the OpenDingux FAQ

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2.why gmenu2x is not see as before?

gmenu2x was entirely moved inside the rootfs. This is so end users don't need to be troubled with the installation of gmenu2x, instead they just copy the rootfs on the card and OpenDingux already starts in the graphics mode.

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6.i just add ps4all link..but inter ps4all folder auto exit explor...this if because ps4all have too many files?..

Perhaps you have some chinese filenames in that directory. I remember a similar behaviour of gmenu2x in certain directories of the built-in memory where the preinstalled chinese files were (and yes, OpenDingux supports the NAND for read only access)

thx
that is chinese filenames cause problem..but before ver gmenu2x have not this problem..i can add link for ps4all(some chinese filenames in that directory)

Sega games on this PicoDrive are too slow... oh wait! it just don't change CPU clock (and sound volume) from Options, only from GMenu2X. But i want different clocks for different games.
And after i change Sound Quality in PicoDrive - sound disappeared
What about hold key feature?
In explorer mismatched B and A (for enter in directory)
Performance of OpenDingux kernel much more lower, than standard Dingux. Maybe because OpenDingux use ALSA instead OSS?

PS: Power Switch Daemon very useful application

Sega games on this PicoDrive are too slow... oh wait! it just don't change CPU clock (and sound volume) from Options, only from GMenu2X. But i want different clocks for different games.
And after i change Sound Quality in PicoDrive - sound disappeared

I did only a fast port of Picodrive, I will eventually release a better version with those changes.

What about hold key feature?

You can change the key shortcuts as explained here. The "hold" feature is implemented, but not present on the default config. You can affect it to a shortcut if you want (the name is "hold").

In explorer mismatched B and A (for enter in directory)

I've seen that yes, thanksfully it's just the button icons.

Performance of OpenDingux kernel much more lower, than standard Dingux. Maybe because OpenDingux use ALSA instead OSS?

It is not related to the sound, but to the graphic driver. We'll start a major rewrite of it soon, which will fix the gmenu2x bug with TV-out and will hopefully bring a great speedup. As we advertised, that version is targeted at developers, so that they can try their apps on it and adapt them if needed; we will release a 'community' version in a few weeks from now.

PS: Power Switch Daemon very useful application

Thank you

Does dingoo charging when it in suspend mode?

Yes, it does charge in suspend mode. It even charges faster

And what about idea that emulators must be storied (in /usr/local/bin ,for example) separately from roms (in /home/roms/sega ,for example) and configs in /home/.config/picodrive ... like on standart linux desktop. "FHS for dingux"

The most important thing is that the saves are not written on ROMs directory, so that the ROMs can be put on the NAND without problems.