Spirantho, agreed. The very fluid handling of Blender 2.6x under MintPPC is yet another indication that the hardware is very capabale indeed. Just got to get our software up to snuff as we can. Hardware acceleration is going to make a lot of difference with a lot of things.

Under MintPPC on my X1000 I just discovered a nice bit of software called Minitube, which allows you to easily search for, watch and even download YouTube videos with ease. The playback quality is very good -- even 720 and 1080 resolution playing well for me at fullscreen. This has been the best-looking video I have yet seen on my X1000 hardware.

So.... is a port of this program for AmigaOS even possible? What are the dependencies?

I have hardware acceleration working under MintPPC with my RadeonHD card and of course both CPU cores are enabled. The hardware seems quite capable, so looking forward to AmigaOS improving so as to utilize the hardware more.

zzd10h, I am on my X1000 right now running NetSurf 3.0, with the frequent little freezes of a second or two. I have two RadeonHD cards -- a 6850 and a 4350. They are identified as 01 and 02 not 00 and 01 as I said.

Here is what SysMon shows before running NetSurf (the 4350 shows up as RV710 on the list, but nothing is displayed by that card right now; my second monitor is blank)...

01 Radeon RV710 247 Mb
02 Radeon HD 6800 Series 200 Mb

This is what is says after launching NetSurf...

01 Radeon RV710 238 Mb
02 Radeon 6800 Series 188 Mb

So a little memory is taken from each card, although as I said the 01 card is not displaying a screen right now.

zzd10h and Chris,

I also have dual graphics cards in my X1000 and also noticed the lag. Just chiming in so zzd10h won't feel alone. ;)

I have noticed that my secondary card is #0 and my main card is #1 but I do not know if it's possible to reverse this. Perhaps that might be some clue??? Good luck and good work with the NetSurf project!

Yes, thanks, Lyle. Your work and your dedication are greatly appreciated!

For whatever reason I have not been able to get my never-before-tested Edirol UM-1D USB MIDI interface working. Could be my stupidity or the unit that somebody gave me could be bad.

But...

I just restored MIDI functioning for my SoundBlaster by rolling back dos.library.kmod to version 53.90. I'll note this on the Hyperion support forum too.

Hmmm..... I don't have midi working anymore either. I have been using a SoundBlaster's onboard MIDI but it is no longer working. EMU10kx.

fingus, that is very sharp-looking. Somehow, in my mind, that is what a computer is supposed to look like.

I'm not having a problem with the terminology or the operations. It works for me. Think of it as cutting a long strip of movie film or videotape into clips and then assembling them in your desired order.

Specify start (in point) and stop (out point) for each cut clip, and then arrange them in order. Cut and join slices them up and cements/tapes them together just like in old-fashioned film editing, only it does the deed all in one big batch operation.

I too would love this to work with frames and not millisecons, but I suspect that's some mendcoder limitication. Not sure, but I bet ktadd has the answer.

The other new video editing tool that's on os4depot right now doesn't specify millisecons and cuts to whole seconds only. That doesn't suit my needs as I want to get more precise than that. With the milliseconds have to do it by trial and error a couple of times, but I usually get it right, or close to what I want.

Anybody using SoundFX with a SoundBlaster Live card? I dug up this old thread on AW on which user complains of emu10k.crash when attempting to record with SoundFX. Maybe that's my problem.

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/v ... _id=21894&forum=32#351406

I've been thinking of upgrading to a better sound card, so this might push me closer to that decision if the SB is my problem here.

What's the method for installing SoundFX? I downloaded the archive from Amgia Future's site, and within that I find an 020 directory and within that an archive with an English isntaller. I run that, but it gives an error (line 1768 I think) before finishing.

Probably I'm doing this wrong. :)

EDIT: Third time through the manual install and with some advice on IRC I have SoundFX installed on my X1000.

I am still having a problem, though.... I get a DSI error and the machine locks up each time I hit the record button.

SFX is using my sound card and level meters show the level for the source. But hit the record button and... BOOM.

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I bought this same card after reading Trevor's blog entry, and it's what I use in my X1000. It works! But it is pricey, costing twice as much ($300 US from my source) as 6850 cards that are thick enough to take up two slots. But I wanted the one-slot option and had some extra bucks to spend. If buying now, I'm not sure if I'd spring for the extra costly extra thin card. But that money is spent and forgotten about. I expect to be using this card for many years to come.

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I agree completely!

TJ,
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You can see my X1000 displays in operation in my LightWave video on YouTube. The main screen, fed by the 6850 card, is a Samsung 16:10 LCD with a native resolution of 1920x1200. I use this for most everything and I tend to favor running applications on their own screens rather than on the Workbench. It's the way I did things starting with my Amiga 500 in 1987, and old habits are hard to break. Of course, I had not so much screen real estate back then.

Incidentally, I have found that a 1280x800 resolution screen will also fill my Samsung display and works well for classic applications such as LightWave and Imagine. At 1920x1200, the user interface elements of those programs are very small and hard to see. While this lower resolution is "softer" because it is not the displays' native resolution, this particular monitor seems to scale things very well.

The other monitor is a Dell 4:3 monitor with a native resolution of 1280x1024, and it is fed by the 4850 card that shipped with my X1000. A lot of times, this screen is black, but I frequently will throw something on it -- like an ADPro graphic render or Directory Opus on its own screen. Some programs, like Hively Tracker, for instance, just look better to me full screen on a 4:3 aspect ratio monitor. So those get sent to the Dell. Sometimes, I put LightWave's Layout and Modeler programs on separate displays at the same time.

I've been using the FRED program that comes with ADPro to to some batch operations. I put FRED on one monitor and ADPro's interface is on the Workbench screen on the other monitor. When the automated processing starts between these two programs, it's a hoot to watch the "action" jump back and forth between the screens. (It doesn't take much to amuse me. LOL!)

Anyway, multiple displays on Amiga is different than on Mac, where I have a giant desktop spanning two large screens. On the Mac, I like to spread programs like Lightroom and Final Cut Pro across the two screens. Amiga apps don't tend to work this way, and the OS does not support this style of twin displays.

But I like the way things are just fine, and yes, you can slide down screens on both monitors.

TJ, I have so many fans blowing in my home computer lab (including the one aimed at me most of the time), as well as the TV or the music playing, the girls yacking (er, conversing with me I mean) and the dogs making various noises that... well, I don't know. I suspect they are the same. Plus, I still have the 4850 installed and driving a second display, so I added to the noise no doubt about it.

Sorry I'm no help on this one. About the only quiet time I get is when I am in my old-fashioned photo darkroom, and that's not too often these days.

Anyway, I figure the custom Nemo board and the exotic CPU were expensive but the video card wasn't, so it's no big deal to me. And until the AmiWest announcement I had no notion that Warp3D was coming at all.

No worries or sense of betrayal from me that Warp3D is not announced for the 4000 series cards like the 4850 that I bought with my X1000. It was never promised and anyway I already upgraded to a RadeonHD 6850 as soon as I learned the newer, better cards were going to be supported by the 2D driver.

Also, frankly, I already figured Gallium and OS4.2 were a ways off. After all, nothing has come fast before has it? But getting Warp3D (which was never expected) in the short term is good news for me, and if I didn't already have the 6850 card I wouldn't waste a second fretting about it. I'd just buy a 5xxx or 6xxx card. I mean, the cheaper ones are not very costly at all.

And on top of all this, all indications are that the A-EON partners are being both cautious AND optimistic that there'll be new OS4.X hardware to come. That's good to hear.

The A-EON partners are investing (read that as risking) real money on development. They have to be careful and make well-considered decisions of how to spend limited resources.

Severin asked me via IRC to post this text here because he is having trouble making the post himself:

ok. I think I know part of your problem... I filed a BZ for it ages ago but nothing seems to have been done.

Sometimes if you use the auto tooltype like I do from dopus the first file in an lha archive is not extracted.

I just tried it with the new warpdt prefs archive and the first file is the drawer icon which wasn't extracted. so sometimes you will get a deficon when you shouldn't. still don't know why it doesn't work for you though, it's fine here on my beta partition.

btw. silly question I know but do you have separate kicklayouts for your FC and beta kickstart files?

It was getting late into the evening when I got the Radeon HD 6850 card working in my X1000, so I didn't spend too much time testing it -- but initial impressions are highly favorable. Workbench operations seemed quite snappy, even more so than before.

It's funny, on my Sam440 machines I thought that sort of thing was quite acceptable, then got the X1000 with the 4850 card fitted and suddenly the Sam440s seemed pokey by comparison. (That's no bash -- I love my little Sam440ep-mini especially and am keeping it!) Then, after only a few days, I got used to the X1000/RadeonHD4850 speed I guess -- because suddenly, zing, it seems fast all over again with the new 6850 card. I better not get too used to this boost, however -- because I'm out of Amiga hardware upgrade money! (Need to save some for software, like the Hollywood upgrade.)

I did play a couple of minutes of video and can remark that playback of standard-def video is super smooth -- even in full frame without any overlay support (or its modern equivalent). I will see what happens with 720p video tonight, though I expect some trouble there. But we shall see. The composting demo Hans did with the boing ball in the 3D room is just amazingly smooth. I was mesmerized for long minutes, just flipping that room around with the cursor keys while the animated ball and the sound effects never missed a beat.

Running Blender with wazp on the 6850 card is acceptable, though particles do not show in the wireframe animation previews they way they do when using the normal warp3d.library and with my old 9250 PCI card installed in the X1000. (It's not in the machine now, as I put the ethernet card back in.) My big Blender test -- loading a large Klingon battlecruiser blend file and rotating the complex mesh -- remains frustratingly slow in Blender on AmigaOS no matter how it's run. One day, one day...

Meantime, I submitted the GfxBench2d benchmark data for my 9850 card to Hans' site. I got a score of 5,870.75. Pretty good?

**UPDATE** The problem outlined below has been overcome by updating the X1000 firmware to the latest version, as suggested by Hans and Trevor on the Hyperion support forum. Now the 9850 card is working in my computer. I'll post some observations on the setup here tomorrow.

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Hey, folks. I just posted mostly the same text on the Hyperion support forum. But I'll ask here too because Amigans always brings good answers with little "trouble." Heh.

I've tried a couple of HD 6850 cards in my new X1000 and I have not been met with success. The latest card (tried just now) happens to be the very same single-slot PowerColor Radeon HD6850 used by Trevor and remarked on in his blog entry. Since that's a card known to work, I'm certain I must be doing something wrong.

Sympton: After the bootup menu screen the red bard begins its advance across the bottom of the X1000 logo screen. When the red bar reaches the end at the right, everything stops. The AmigaOS 4.1 logo screen never appears.

This is the same with and without additional graphics cards installed. It's true too with only the 6850 installed. I am using the new .49 release of the Radeon driver, and in devs/monitors I have Radeon HD 6 just as detailed by Trevor.

Have I missed something obvious?

As an aside, I've also tried a HD 5770 card and that worked perfectly. In fact, moments ago I uploaded tge GfxBench2D benchmark results to Hans' site.

Me too! Me too! (grin)

Seriously, thanks to all who have had a hand in us keeping on keeping on.

Glad you came back, sicky. My story is somewhat similar, only I'm going to hang on to my MacBook Pro. I've enjoyed your posts about your Sam460. Keep 'em coming and keep having fun.