I would like to fund a guitar purchase and I haven't used this system in months now.

Obviously the board is used (they're sold out now new). Please do your homework on X5040 before replying, but it is basically the top end OS4 machine.

Motherboard + RAM for £1300 + shipping.

This is already a considerable loss on what was paid. It will include the USB recovery stick (used to install the system), the OS4.1FE license (apparently I can transfer this) and I'm sure I'll be able to transfer the Enhancer license but I haven't actually enquired about that yet.

Initially, UK only please. I'm not familiar with overseas shipping.

For a nominal amount (£30?) I can happily include a 128GB SSD with an installed system.

If there is interest, I would be willing to sell the complete system which would add a CoolerMaster SL600M case, PSU, RX560 GPU, and sound card. BUT (there's a big but), the case is BIG and has a glass side panel. I can't ship that so it would have to be collection from West Somerset (look up Butlins). If you're interested then PM me and we can talk prices.

[EDIT] OK, that was fast, but it looks like sale pending!

Fortunately, overnight Paypal automatically returned the money. This morning I tried again with a credit card and it worked. It didn't look like it was going to as it was ridiculously slow but eventually the page completed. As a bonus, it cost me less. My bank is obviously giving me a better euro to GBP conversion rate!

[EDIT] Damn that site's slow!!

@Cageman

Thanks! Will try and remember to order it over the weekend. Not a style of game I'm normally into but tried it in an online web version and rather enjoyed it!

[edit] Oh great. I tried to buy it by PayPal. The money has come out of my bank account but the page never responded and it doesn't look like the order went through. Now I need to try and get support. *sigh* Annnd google translate tells me the support page just gives an error when I try to send an email. Their website is clearly broken at the moment

Just checking, but is that German website the only place to preorder this?

I agree with the sentiment of your post, the X5040 is a lovely machine and the A1222’s lack of FPU and requirement for SPE is just a non starter.

I’d add on top that the design of the board is mad. And this applies to x5040 too. Putting the x4 slot so close to the x16 that you have to resort to hacks to use it is a really bad choice. Put it an extra slot away, make it physically 16x (not electrically) and do away with that combo port instead. Job done. No more messing with adapters.

Also, the cpu cooler is just terrible.

Also software wise, the more I use it, the more it disappoints. It’s becoming very obvious that they are beta / test boards that were only sold because they ran out of 5020’s. They’re not ready. And at this point we don’t seem to be getting any more fixes which is really poor given the price people are being charged.

The whole issue with GPUs in the 4x slot appears now to be 5040 specific and when I decide to say sod it and just go with x1650 in the 16x slot (and just use mos) I can’t because that GPU doesn’t provide a picture through my HDMI switch, my capture device and 4K monitor even though my RX560 does. I’d have to forgo the capture card at least and go direct into the 1080p monitor and I don’t want to do that.

So for now I have no choice but to put up with a buggy system until something else comes along. Sad but true.

I don't think you can control the speed of the fan - it's why I have bought passive / fanless GPU cards for the second card. You could replace the fan with an aftermarket one from AliExpress but you'd have to make sure it's compatible with x1950. My cards are all x1600 series so not as powerful. It will still run at 100% but not so loud.


[EDIT] PS: I agree that this is beginning to feel a lot like an X5040 issue. Which pretty much means we're stuck since RELEASED updates have dried up for the board.

FWIW I've tried to get UTM to produce something that could boot OS4 in the past and couldn't get anywhere near a working config. It made far too many assumptions and inserted far too many options that were only useful for Windows / Linux type stuff even when going in to the advanced settings and trying to take complete control.

That said, I've not used it for some time now as I went back to VMWare Fusion. There was a reason for that and I have a suspicion it was USB related but honestly, I don't remember right now. (I'm not suggesting VMWare fusion can do PPC, it can't, but I had UTM on my Mac as my main means of running a Windows and Linux VM).

I'm curious why you often use iBrowse instead of Odyssey? Any particular reason? I just have Odyssey in my dock and that's all I ever use.

@AmigaSociety If you're specifically talking about trying to get into the early boot menu, I also found that the only way to do it reliably is to wait for the ball animation to start. At one point I had the animation disabled and I needed to get into it over the serial connection most of the time. Now I've set the animation back to 1 cycle I can enter it reliably 100% of the time using the ESC key.

Realistically this is because I use a wireless keyboard that has a 2.4Ghz dongle and so you have to wait for the USB stack to reset before it picks up the connection. The only reliable way to know when that's happened is when the ball starts spinning.

At the moment u-boot is bugged and the animation is slow, so 1 cycle is plenty enough time to catch it. If that ever gets fixed (I have my doubts anything will at this point) you may need to increase to 2 or 3 cycles.

OK, I have no idea why it was so difficult and more or less took 4 evenings to get there, but, Linux Mint is installed and running. Essentially by doing the exact same thing as I did the first time I tried. Either I've got some flaky hardware somewhere or something must be different.

Now I just need to do a lot of internet searching to get everything set up.

Nothing over serial output beyond the kernel load, then the device tree load. I've now tried Void linux as well just to be complete :D

@sailor

Ah! Those boot args will be helpful, thanks. I have the serial permanently connected, just not those parameters when using linux.

At the moment I don't have a user on the Hyperion forums. All I really wanted to do was get a linux installed so I could see how temperatures compared to OS4 and Morphos. I don't really need linux on my X5000 as I have plenty of other machines I can run linux on, both physical and virtual - I didn't expect this to consume quite so much of my time

@Rolar

I'm beginning to think it's my GPU because at this point I've tried everything I can think of! Yesterday I did the following:

- Removed the RX card so there is only the X1600 Pro. It is now in the primary 16x slot
- tried GPT partition table
- tried the 6.8 final kernel rather than the 6.15-rc7
- tried fienix 6.1 USB installer
- tried a different SSD
- tried with the SSD in SATA0 and with it in SATA1 and Morphos SSD in SATA0

All the same result. I think I've exhausted pretty much every option open to me?

Unless it's my sound card? En EMU10K1 SBLive. But then wouldn't I get a picture?

@sailor
If the xorg.conf wasn't configured correctly then again, wouldn't I at least get to the black screen and see it attempt to boot, but just fail to start X11?

Bit of a mystery! I have other cards that should be supported (HD 5450 and another I forget the name of) but they don't work with MorphOS. I would assume that both mint and fienix are OK with the idea of 2 GPUs as Skateman runs the same setup but with X1900 instead of X1600 pro. My only concern is that I do get some "Spurious interrupt" messages over debug serial from the GPU driver of MorphOS. But it's a beta driver so it could mean nothing. OS4 doesn't support the X1600 so I don't have any way to know if it works there or not.

I seem to be a bit stuck at the moment.

I've prepared the SD card and added the kernel to it (https://github.com/chzigotzky/kernels/releases/tag/v6.15.0-rc7). The system loads the kernel and then the device tree so it all looks good. I then switch my monitor input and nothing.

my linuxbpot command is:


I renamed the cyrus-p5040.dtb file and moved it to the root of the cd card just to save typing.

Here is what I did, all from within a linux VM on my Mac (Ubuntu based VM if it matters)

- used gparted to create a new MBR partition map
- created a small 512MB FAT32 partition at the start of the disk to hold kernel later if I wanted to
- created a 30GB ext4 partition next
- created an 8GB swap partition after that
- all other space left unallocated

I then used dd to copy the single partition image to /dev/sda2:


Last step in the VM, edit the fstab to use /dev/sda2 for root and /dev/sda3 for swap. I commented out the line for grub since it is my understanding that we are not using it.

I'm not sure what's wrong here? It occurred to me that at no point have I tried a GPT partition table. I'm going to try that.

@Rolar

Thanks for the info. To get me going, I have installed a simple SATA to eSATA bracket which allows me to move the SSD to the outside of the case and only connect one drive at a time. It's obviously not as slick as the PCIe adapter, but I already had it here so it will do for now.

I'll follow the links for actually having a go at setting it up.

Are there any guides anywhere for how to go about OS4/MOS/Linux on X5000 please?

I know Skateman is very knowledgable on this topic but I don't like to bug him all the time, especially with how busy he is right now.

So far I have OS4 on SDD in 1st SATA port using RX560 GPU and MOS on SDD in 2nd SATA port using X1600 Pro.

I was wondering if it's possible to add linux to one of those drives to make the triple possible? Would be preferable if I don't need to buy a PCIe SATA card but I suppose I could. Alternatively if I can't add the linux partitions to one of those drives then I could add an adapter that I have that makes one of the SATA's external. It's not ideal though since the hard drive would be hanging out the back of the machine.

@lazi

Yes, of course. I am very busy with work this week but hopefully I'll get the time one evening.

Just to report back on this one - I connected my Powerbook G4 laptop to wired ethernet so that eth1 was the device in use and everything started working and became fast and reliable.

So it would appear there is a fault in the code that assumes the device name. Or something like that. Whatever the issue, it should have detected that eth1 (or eth0, I forget) was not actually in use and in fact wl0 was the device it should have used.

Is wormhole between two MOS machines a supported config? I haven't yet been able to get it to work. One or other of the wormhole instances just crashes. One thing I did note is that my MOS laptop says "eth0" for both host names, but really on the laptop it is using wl0. Of course it's zero config so I don't see anywhere to tell it which interface to use.

It does seem to connect once in a while but it's very unreliable and I haven't managed to transfer anything reliably.

@Skateman
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Any idea what's been added for those of us on X5000? As far as I was aware the only thing we were missing was warm boot and Hans had said it wasn't possible / wouldn't happen. Given how often the system needs rebooting that would be real nice! Anything else?