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Gregor

X5000 switches itself off

Posted on: Today 8:42 #1

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My X5000/40 has started to switch itself off every now and then. Within a year there has been at least 7 cases. The standby leds (green and red) stay on and the MCU Error led is blinking when this happens.

What is causing this issue? Can it be fixed somehow?

I have a top-quality PSU, and have checked the power cabling. CPU is not overheated, the temperature stays under 65°C.

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Gregor

Re: Bug-fix updates for Odyssey?

Posted on: 2/26 10:32 #2

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@redfoxQuote:

My main issue now is when I launch MultiView from my AmiDock, I sometimes get a DSI error.

And YES ... I use MultiView not MultiViewer.

Do these DSIs appear when you start Multiview itself, or only after you try to open some file from it?

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Gregor

Re: Bug-fix updates for Odyssey?

Posted on: 2/26 10:29 #3

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@jabiruloQuote:

what filesystem is Odyssey?

SFS.

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maybe some of Conf/... files Odyssey saves are garbled.

If that is the case, why do these freezes happen randomly? A corrupted .conf file should have effect on every time I open Odyssey or a cetrtain site....

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Options/prefs you use/change?

I cannot remember which are original and which I have changed myself. How to present them as they are split into several .conf files...

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Gregor

Re: Bug-fix updates for Odyssey?

Posted on: 2/26 10:18 #4

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@MaijestroQuote:

At the moment I am using Odyssey version 1.23, I am using all the relevant Amiga sites and have also added the latest scripts available for Odyssey, even my email account (Emailn) can be used with Odyssey without any problems. I also use YouTube often via Yt.rexx and aiostreams amiga project. I have never had any problems like you described.

Which machine are you using?

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Gregor

Re: Bug-fix updates for Odyssey?

Posted on: 2/24 14:28 #5

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@sailorQuote:

sailor wrote:@Gregor
in what circumstances the erros occur?
I am using the latest version form os4depot: Odyssey 1.23 r5 ( thx @kas1e ).

Me too... The freezes happen when I try to load some trivial page, e.g. the usual Amiga fora like Amigans.net. The page is loaded for a short time, then it suddenly stops and the whole system is freezed. Cannot even start a cli window anymore... Mouse pointer is still moving but clicking the buttons do not have any effect on anything. Power or reset button is the only way out (ctrl-A-A or ctrl-alt-alt are not responding anymore).

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I have no freezes after long use, tested on multiple AOS4 machines.
I have no special settings and I am not using youtube.js or any other custom script.

I have a X5000. I do not use youtube via Odyssey, either. I'm not sure about the settings, but if I do a fresh reinstallation and copy the settings file from the earlier installation, Odyssey do not show this freezings for at least a few weeks. So my settings cannot be the direct cause of the issue...

I use also Linux regularly ( and MOS occasionally), but have not seen anynything similar with them. So I doubt the cause could be a defective network connection.

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Gregor

Re: Bug-fix updates for Odyssey?

Posted on: 2/24 14:04 #6

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@kas1eQuote:

Nope, no one developing it. But code on github, you can try to fix any issue you find and i can build fixed version then

Thanks, but that is beyond my competence... I'm not a programmer for a bit.

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Gregor

Bug-fix updates for Odyssey?

Posted on: 2/24 7:56 #7

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Is there anyone developing Odyssey anymore? At least the bug which causes Odyssey, after 1-2 month's use after installation, to freeze when loading pages should be fixed! Having to continuously reisnstall Odyssey is not a decent solution.

At least there should be a script (or a program) which would clean-up automatically possible mess (corrupted files etc.?) created by the program...

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Gregor

Re: Opening the 1st bootmenu automatically (X5000)

Posted on: 2/4 22:08 #8

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@derfsQuote:

try looking at https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/UserDoc:BIOS to see if anything will help

Unfortunately that document is badly outdated... It does not help anyhow with X5000.

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Gregor

Re: Opening the 1st bootmenu automatically (X5000)

Posted on: 2/4 14:55 #9

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@joergQuote:

I don't know if you can disable auto-booting the default completely, but if you use something like
setenv amigabootmenu_timeout 30 saveenv
you have enough time to change it to another boot option.

Thanks for the tip... But changing the timeout did not open automatically the boot menu. It only delayed booting, just like adding animcycles. So, this is not the solution I am looking for...

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Gregor

Opening the 1st bootmenu automatically (X5000)

Posted on: 2/4 11:16 #10

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How can I set AmigaOne X5000 to open _automatically_ (without pressing a key) the first bootmenu? There must be a U-Boot variable for that, but which is it?

I use currently AmigaOS, Linux and MOS so randomly that it is impractical to have one default boot OS, and to have to reach the bootmenu via a keyboard key (which I usually forget to press at time, and have to reboot ;).

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Gregor

Re: Picture viewers

Posted on: 2/2 9:22 #11

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@jabirulo

Thanks, that was a good piece of advice! The culprit was 'WarpWebP.datatype' V. 45.5. I got it from OS4Depot, and it is quite fresh.

Edit: Also the 'WarpJPG datatype' which Eliyahu recommended makes Multiviewer to crash.

Edited by Gregor on 2024/2/2 11:12:14

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Gregor

Re: Picture viewers

Posted on: 2/1 19:56 #12

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@eliyahu

Thanks for the tips! Warpview works nicely, but with WarpJPG datatype also Multiview seems to work with all jpg files.

The only issue left is why Multiviewer does not start at all,,, I remember it worked still a couple of years ealier. There must be some system update which has unstabilized it. But as I have not used Multivewer for a long time, I cannot say when this problem appeared.

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Gregor

Picture viewers

Posted on: 2/1 15:20 #13

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Are there any reliable picture viewers for Amiga OS41? I cannot use Multiview as it crashes with many jpg pictures created with ImageFX (even with small ones), and currently Multiviewer cannot be opened at all in my X5000 (crashes immediately with GR 80000003, both from icon and cli).

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Gregor

Re: PageStream on AOS4

Posted on: 1/29 19:29 #14

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One tip for PageStream users... If the 'Pagestream4.prefs' file gets corrupted (that happens usually once-a-year for me), Pagestream will freeze or guru when launched. That may happen even if you have not yourself edited and saved the prefs lately.

The cure is to delete that file, or replace it with a copy from a backup disk.

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Gregor

Re: MPlayer 1.5 released!

Posted on: 1/25 21:15 #15

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@ktadd
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I don't quite understand your statement above though. How do you lose use of the 0 and 9 keys. All your doing is translating the multimedia keycodes, so they send the same codes the 0 and 9 key produce. Basically, your adding additional 0 and 9 keys. The normal 0 and 9 keys aren't affected at all and still work as normal.

Ah... I misunderstood how AllKeys does the translation, I thought it in the opposite way. Thanks for your clarification!-)

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Gregor

Re: MPlayer 1.5 released!

Posted on: 1/25 10:19 #16

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@ktadd wrote:
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Use AllKeys to translate your volume up key to the 0 key and to translate the volume down key to 9. The zero and nine keys control MPlayers volume, so translating your multimedia keys to zero and nine works. I tested it on my system and it works great.

Thanks for the tip... I already thought that option but abandoned it as I would then loose the 0 and 9 keys which I need with other programs. But I noticed that In AllKeys Arexx commands can also be addressed directly to the Arexx port of MPlayer ('Mplayer.1'), without using 'rx' command and scripts. That seems to be the best solution for me, and there are no side effects if MPlayer is not running when pressing the multimedia keys.

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Gregor

Re: MPlayer 1.5 released!

Posted on: 1/23 17:55 #17

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@ktaddQuote:

ktadd wrote:
As Joerg stated, Non VANILLA or RAWKEYS can't be mapped, but you can use AllKeys from OS4Depot to assign the media keys on keyboards. I have my multimedia volume keys mapped to control the volume level of both Nemosound and Mixer, (sometimes I switch between the two) so that they control the volume for all programs, including Mplayer.

I'm alredy using AllKeys, but I still cannot figure how to make MPlayer to use the multimediakeys directly... The only workaround I have found is to assign those keys to execute the included Arexx scripts which adjust the volume (RX 'VolumeDown.rx' and RX 'VolumeUp.rx'). Or is this the method you are using, too?

The dark side of using those scripts is that if you accidentally press the multimedia keys when MPlayer is NOT runing, rx will crash (8000003)!

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Gregor

Re: MPlayer 1.5 released!

Posted on: 1/23 10:11 #18

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@samo79

Is it possible to use the multimedia keys (Volume down and up) of a 110-key keyboard for volume control with MPlayer? How should they be defined? Does Mplayer understand the $xxxxxxxx key codes if used in the prefs file?

EDIT
I tested these lines in input.conf:

$800000EA volume -1
$800000E9 volume 1

Did not work