ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux [LWN.net]

ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2012 18:41 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux by Im26
Parent article: ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Ha.

I actually had this very problem with a Ford rental car. It had "Microsoft Sync" for its infotaiment system and it suddenly started to output very loud white noise over the audio system while I was on a freeway. And it wasn't responding to volume controls.

However, simply stopping the car and turning it off didn't help. I had to go online, find the location of fusebox, and pull the fuse to hard-reset the infotaiment system.

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ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux

Posted Dec 7, 2012 18:58 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> However, simply stopping the car and turning it off didn't help.

Did you try turning the car off while it wasn't stopped? The GP's instructions stated that you had to "pull over to the side of the road". There's no mention that the car should be at rest. I'm sure it's a common oversight.