About an hour or so ago I updated the custom user splash screen patch (FS#7538) which now has no delay for those who only want to use the original.

I also decided to test the USB patch. The patch isn't on the tracker, but you can find information on the USB software stack at http://christian-gmeiner.info/soc. A patch file's also there, but for most people, they won't really need it. I have a build at http://nuclearscripting.com/other/sansa/build/build/download.zip which has the patch, though for most people, it won't be too important at the moment. The patch creates a menu in Settings | General Settings called USB stack, with settings for "USB Stack Mode", and "Not Done Yet!", which I believe is supposed to be "Device Driver". "USB Stack Mode" contains the options "Automatic", "Device", and "Host". There are no options for "Device Driver", but since it says "Not Done Yet!", it's probably still being coded. Connecting it to my computer did cause dmesg to output some stuff (see below) but did not appear in lsusb, though since it is still a work in progress, it's kind of expected. The computer did not detect it being disconnected either. GSoC ends at the end of this month, so it's possible we could have USB support by then, otherwise by sometime in September. Either way, it's coming.

Also, the freezes that were occuring yesterday in plugins are gone. I'm not sure what the cause was, but I haven't noticed a freeze at all today.

dmesg:
[775932.220630] usb 4-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 33
[775933.331740] usb 4-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[775938.543567] usb 4-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[775938.759389] usb 4-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 34
[775939.870591] usb 4-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[775945.082305] usb 4-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[775945.298136] usb 4-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 35
[775950.701782] usb 4-7: device not accepting address 35, error -71
[775950.813722] usb 4-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 36
[775956.217358] usb 4-7: device not accepting address 36, error -71

-Jack