Getting !Messenger to run on Panda

I have all my software running (very nicely) on my Pandaboard except !Messenger which throws an internal error – abort on transfer. I have tried clean install of 7.02 but no luck. Any suggestions to bebug this?

Is this happening every time?

I had !Messenger Pro (7.02) die on me the night before last but this sort of thing is fairly normal for RISC OS on PandaBoard – it may be fast as f**k but it is not quite stable…

I get it each time. Other apps like !Netsurf work perfectly.

That’s strange I’ve had no issues at all on my Pandaboard. Its rock solid with the exception of the cd drive which barfs under load, requiring a reboot to get it working. Contact rcomp would be my suggestion.
My messenger pro is 6.06, so maybe that’s why it’s working ok
I think he also does support for Pandaboard.
I’ve just got elite and zool working as well

There’s no known problem, but I wonder if some external application is breaking? We don’t recommend installing eSpeak on Panda (or BB, or pi) as that’s a 3rd party extension which was never satisfactorily updated for ARMv7. Otherwise it should all be fine – it’s one of our demo applications for PandaBoard!

Now, I should stress that I can only test on our own PandaLand environment, so if there’s something external (or OS related) getting in the way, it is difficult for me to make comment. However, I wouldn’t have thought this would be the case (I’d say 10% or less), but it is a necessary disclaimer.

I’d prefer to take this to email though, please, as that will allow a more detailed back’n’forth of testing/ideas. It’ll also allow me to send you 7.03!

Andrew, Thanks for the advice. I will delete and retry without eSpeak. I’ll email you as if 7.03 is out I would really like to test.

I can confirm, it was my Riscos and !MPro now works very nicely (other than an annoying bug in IMAP version in general where a window with a post always opens at startup).

As a Riscos platform, the Panda is extremely quick!