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A new Dingux version has been released, which comes with a new rootfs. An EXT3 partition on the SD card is no longer needed. Actually EXT3 support has been dropped from the Dingux kernel in favor of FAT to make installing Dingux from Windows easier and reduce the kernel size. Due to other changes dynamically linked programs need to be recompiled for this Dingux version.
Here is a new Gmu release which is compatible with the latest Dingux release.

To run Gmu extract the zip file to your SD card and execute gmu.goo in the Gmu directory.

gmu-0.7.0_BETA4-DINGOO-newdingux.zip (0.8 MB)

Here is another Gmu release for the Dingoo. Most notably it fixes an annoying bug where the backlight would not turn back on after a while when the hold mode had been enabled.

gmu-0.7.0_BETA4-DINGOO.zip (0.9 MB)

You need Dingux with a uclibc-based rootfs to run Gmu.

Here is a new Gmu Beta release for the Dingoo A320. This release comes with some major improvements and bugfixes including:

• Backlight power-off is now functional on the Dingoo (backlight will be turned off when the hold mode is enabled as well as after a configurable amount of time without pressing a button)
• FLAC decoder now comes with meta data tag support
• MP3 decoder does no longer crash Gmu with broken/invalid files

Gmu is highly configurable. It is always worth it to have a look at the README.txt file. Especially if you are having trouble running Gmu, make sure you have read the “Installation” section of the README.txt file.

gmu-0.7.0_BETA3-DINGOO.zip (1.0 MB)

I have added a script called gmu.goo to the archive, which makes it easier to run Gmu on Dingux. It does all the annoying stuff you had to do manually before. You can run that script from the command line or execute it from a file browser.

For those of you using dmenu on the Dingoo, you can easily add a Gmu menu entry to dmenu, by editing dmenu.cfg. Simply add a section like this to the appropriate section of the file:

MenuItem Gmu
{
    Icon = "res/explorer.png"
    Name = "Gmu Music Player"
    Executable = "/root/gmu-0.7.0_BETA3-DINGOO/gmu.goo"
    WorkDir = "/root/gmu-0.7.0_BETA3-DINGOO"
    Selector = no
}

In case you’ve extracted the Gmu zip file to some other location, you need to adjust the path accordingly.

Please make sure you are using the latest Dingux kernel. Otherwise the backlight power-off function won’t work.