Good to know, thanks. Yes, it makes sense that they won't get excited over one old, obscure card, but if this problem plagues one card, it probably plagues other, too. Somewhere.

Getting OT, but I wonder how many Amiga users have access to a wide range of PCI/PCie cards (maybe a friend owns a computer repair shop?) and checked them for recognition in UBoot/CFE? When you know there are drivers for only cards X, Y, and Z, I think the natural tendency is to steer away from anything else. Maybe some of the X5000 beta testers had a go?

Well i do think we can we can create tickets at NXP if needed. On the other hand, asking support for a 21 year old SIL3132 chipset based budget controller might not be something they see as a high priority issue.. but again if needed we can always try.

@NinjaCyborg
Quote:Depends on your internet connection.
If you live in a big city with 1 Gbit or more FTTH internet access you don't need a browser disk cache, unless you care about your CO² footprint.
If you live in a small village, and/or in an underdeveloped country like Germany (internet access related at least) instead, you may not even get VDSL but only DSL, max. 16 Mbit and in a lot of cases only 768 or 384 Kbit.
Or in worst case no internet access at all, neither any DSL nor G3/G4/G5 networks available, only ISDN 64 Kbit or a V56 modem might still be an option - in the unlikely case there are still any service providers supporting it, or satellite internet with a very high latency.
If you have a slow internet speed large browser disk caches help a lot.

@DigitalDesigns

Use split?

Please explain. Don't normally mess with appearence.
So never heard of it before.

@OldFart

Thank you for the suggestion.
I'm waiting for the BlackFriday deals to order both the Tesmart DKS402-P23 and an Aten CS1924M, I'm looking forward to test them. Unfortunately the latter one is a bit more expensive as the tesmart, but does have a little less functionality.
Let's see which one works best.

@msteed

A couple of weeks ago an update to "MouseDriver" was released.
It is based on xeromouse, maybe it is of help for you.
I don't know why the archive has not been uploaded to os4depot too.

here is the link to Aminet

https://aminet.net/package/driver/input/MouseDriver

@Skateman

Since you chimed-in, I'll ask this: if Sil3132 problems do carry over to the Mirari, as NXP developers, are you entitled to their tech support? Do you have the ability to open tickets, or is that a different support tier?

Even the most modern browsers still do this. Firefox allows you to delete all temporary files on exit via an option, while Chrome requires you to do it manually!

in 2025 does any browser need a disk cache at all?

@joerg

I agree, and i might order one of these cards to give it a try.
As we use a way newer Uboot version compared to the X5K machines it would still be unclear where the problem lies regarding the X5K`s .. Anwyay i would agree that testing as much hardware as possible will always benefit!

@Skateman
Quote:Even if those are useless on the Mirari:
Testing PCI(e) hardware known to have issues on other Amiga PPC systems, like the Sii3152 on classic Amigas (with FireStorm, Prometheus or Mediator) and on the Sam440 as well as the Sii3132 on the X5000, could help to find hardware and/or software (U-Boot) problems on the Mirari.

@tao

We might need to give such a card a try in the Mirari. I have never tested this.
On the other hand..we have SATA and NVME.

@hotrod

This is built into the icon pack and there is no separate program for it.

@F0L

You can make the scaling of the icons work, for example, by using the Use Split, which changes the icons to the machine, select information from there and from there, under tooltype, specify the height and width in pixels, the default is 64x64.

If the icon scaling does not work, the icons will not be switched and an error message will appear.

If an error message appears, the png icon module is not installed on the computer, this is stated in the Readme file.

Also remember to check the settings in Sys->Prefs->Workbench: and under icon what the values ​​are for the smallest and max icon size.

@deadwoodQuote:

Thanks! In "Document viewer" mode the cache dir stays empty. But in Odyssey 1.23 I do not even have the 'cache' dir, and Odyssey do not create it even if I use 'Document browser' mode (in contrast to v. 3,0).

@Gregor

I don't recall if there is an option to disable it completly. You can switch to "Document Viewer" mode instead of "Document Browser" or "Primary Web Browser". In "Document Viewer" mode the caches (memory and disk) are the smallest.

Is there currently a way to disable disk cache in Odyssey 3.0? The cache option in prefs is alredy 'off' but the conf/cache dir is filled continuously.

In the readme file there is mentioned an env variable affecting cache, "OWB_DISABLE_MOBILE_COMPRESSION", but it does not seem to have any effect. I tried to put it on the 'tooltypes', and also run on cli 'setenv OWB_DISABLE_MOBILE_COMPRESSION save', but either of the them worked.

@AlfredOne
Thank you so much for that link.

@AlfredOne

Thank you. Two very lengthy discussions. Is it the chip, the motherboard design, UBoot, or some combination....?

This is the sort of issue I hope we can avoid with the Mirari boards. And if it ends up being a design issue with NXP chips, I at least expect Harald and Dave to be honest with us.

@afxgroup
@walkero

https://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/v ... _id=42094&forum=33#802409