@LiveForIt

OMG! This is so cool! Just last week I was trying to figure out how to compile UAE. Now I don't have to.

Once I figured out the keyboard combos to switch to fullscreen mode and quit and stuff, I was off to the races.

This is awesome. Thank you so much.

edit - I forgot to mention I'm emulating Amiga OS 3.9

Okay, Final Update:

After going through various attempts at getting my X5000/040 in order, it's finally running solid. No periodic lock-ups for a few days. It seems that there were several issues.
So if anyone has stability issues on their X5000/040, here are the three things I think helped, in order of importance:

1. Populating both memory slots with matched memory.

2. Utilizing video drivers from A-media's Rescue Stick.

3. Utilizing memory recommended by the manufacturer.

I'm not sure why having both memory slots occupied helped so much. My (less than educated) guess is that since the RX 580 is a higher performing video card,
a single ram stick couldn't keep up. Having both slots occupied engages interleaving, which increases memory bandwidth enough to keep up with the card.
If anyone else has any insight on this, feel free to chime in.

At any rate, everything runs much smoother. And faster.

@joerg

Something must have changed. When I tried "setenv stdout" it said "can't delete stdout". When I tried "setenv stdout vga,serial"
it said "error inserting variable errno 22". It wouldn't let me change it. Oh well. It works.

Thank you!

@joerg

Thank you. But how should I set that? Should I do setenv stdout vga,serial or is there a way to tell U-boot to use default environment settings?

@smf

Yeah it turns out I had to set stdout to serial. It must have changed at some point.
Anyway. I saw what I needed to see.

Thank you.

@balaton

Yes I want to set the output of Uboot. I want to see how my memory is being detected. I kind of wish Amiga OS had a CPUZ type of app.

But thank you.

Hello,

How do I set Uboot's output to the serial on the X5000? Is it setenv stdout serial, then saveenv? Or is there some other way? I don't have NVSetVAr in my C directory.

Thanks in advance!

Kevin

@MickJT
So I copied that amissl_v111m.library file over and that did the trick. Emotion playing from URLs just fine now.

Thank you.

@khayoz

Finally got my Kingston memory today and installed it. So far, things are going okay. It's a HyperX HX316C10FB/8.
It's pretty close to what is recommended by Aeon.

I read through that thread about interweaving memory. I still have the old stick. Do I dare try my luck at having 2 memory slots filled?
I don't know. We'll see.

Hello,

So it wasn't VideoVortex. Emotion says I/O Error whenever I try to point it to a URL.
I can play local files just fine, just not over the internet.

@khayoz
Yes I thought about that too. I used memtest and it passed all the tests.
Here's the thing though: the memory that Aeon recommends has latency timings of CL10, while the memory I have is CL11.
In the PC World, that doesn't make much difference. It's just a teensy bit slower. I don't know about the Amiga NG World though.
I ordered the memory that Aeon recommends from Ebay, but ran into a snafu and waiting for it to get corrected.

At any rate, the libraries I copied seem to be helping. I'll continue to go through the rescue USB stick and see what else I can copy.
I just want to be careful not to copy something that doesn't work.

Okay. I think I may come super-duper close to solving the problem. I copied the two libraries in the Libs:Warp3DNova/ dir from the Amedia Rescue USB Stick.
Things seem to be a lot better now. Apparently Amedia has more recent versions of those libraries than what's available on the Enhancer software.
I'm not going to ask any questions, but I'm gonna make a backup or two of the Amedia Rescue stick.

@khayoz and @eliyahu

Well I changed it to low power and high power and stilll the same problems. I don't understand it.

@khayoz

It's set to Dynamic. Should I change it?

Thank you.

@eliyahu

That's the one I have, but it locks up in Quake 2 and glexcess as well as the old Wipeout.

I even tried to set it to Silent mode, but no go. What am I doing wrong?

By the way, I put that card into a Windows 10 machine and ran Unigine Valley and it ran with no hiccups.

Okay, I finally isolated the problem to my RX 580 video card. Not great news, but it could be worse. I tried an RX 560 and that was a no-go.
The only thing that works is my RX 550 I cannibalized from my SAM 460.

Could I ask what other X5000/040 owners are running as far as RX 5XX cards? That is the card manufacturer and model name?
It would be nice if I could get a 580, but a 560 that works would be fine.

Kevin

Hello,

When I try to use VideoVortex with Emotion, I get an I/O Error. This doesn't happen with MPlayer. Not sure where to begin to troubleshoot.

Kevin

Hi all,

I was wondering if there was some sort of memory tester for AOS 4.1. I've been seeing a lot of instability with my x5000 lately.
From what I've experienced before, it looks like it might be memory related, but I'd like to confirm.

Kevin

Okay so I've been playing around with my new Amiga. Iv'e learned some things in the process:

It's a bit finicky when it comes to booting from USB sticks. If it's a no-name it probably won't work. I've found here in the US, Lexar seems to work.

Attempts to install using the "install cd" leads to some chicken-and-egg problems. It doesn't come with smartfilesystem and that's my preferred filesystem.

X-dock doesn't seem compatible with Amidock dockies, so I switched to Amidock.

There might some other things I've learned, but for now that's my update.

@khayoz

@skynet

OK so here's the thing. I spent the better part of today trying to create a bootable usb drive but no success.
The instructions I followed included copying the RX drivers to the USB drive but the installation didn't even get that far. It said the drive wasn't bootable.
I tried different USB sticks and filesystems, but no go. The only thing that worked was the USB drive that came with the motherboard.

I would like to start fresh and update properly. That's normally how I set up a system. I haven't been able to figure out how to create a bootable USB drive.

I was able to do it with my SAM460LE, but not with this current configuration.