AmigaOne Xe Firmware and Linux

HI guys where i can find the last firmware update of the good Xe and what is the last revision?

Plus i need to know where i can find the last vmlinux , what is the last linux supported and if there is a tutorial for install it

Thanks too everyone :)

@tlosm

Latest XE version is 1.1.1 from 05/03/2005
You can get it at the Hyperion download site

Debian Linux 2.5.4.1 is the latest "official" (albeit there are lots of alpha/beta kernels on the Hyperion Linux only forums in the works)
The Debian installation guide can be found together with the kernel as download at the A-EON Tech download site (Support/Downloads)

You need to be registered for both to be able to access them

@Raziel

Thanks Raziel :)

@tlosm

I buyed an xe 933 look like a wonderful machine, im try to make radeonhd card working on it plus i need to understand tips and tricks with This pice of hardware .

MY radeonhd cards are 7750hd 2gb ddr3
6670hd 1 gb gddr5
An a 4450hd 512 ddr3


Plus i have a soundblaster live 5.1
A sil 3512
A dlink USB 2.0 port
Will see and report..
And if you know some tips lett me know, everything is appreciated

@tlosm

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Yes, it's a nice little workhorse, still have mine set up and running from time to time

In regard to the RadeonHD card...well, how do i put it...it might not work unfortunately :-/

* See below

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If you try, use the smallest one first (if you get it to run you can always switch to the bigger ones

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The soundcard should run out of the box with the driver from OS4Depot

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The sil3512...i don't remember but i believe that HDDs on this chip will *not* be able to boot due to missing support in slbv2.
I'd leave that card out until you have everything else set up and running and then try...

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Spare every USB add-on until you got everything else running, the XE is known to be flaky with USB stuff.

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OK, first of all, just for the start, if you got more than one RAM modul and/or more than 1 GB, take one of the modules/everything that goes over 1 GB RAM out (My XE gave me headaches until i found out it can't cope with more than 1 GB RAM)

* If you need help you gotta ask best on HDR's forums, where you are already a member i see

Just to add my negative findings to that matter.
I have a DMA and USB fixed XE.
It doesn't let me install a RadeonHD card, because it will freeze on loading the USB drivers.
No matter what i did i couldn't get it to run.
I stripped down the machine to it's bare minimum and even disabled hardware (both USB) in UBoot, yet to no avail.
The thing was that USB, together with DMA AND the network stack killed the RadeonHD initialization. (I'm upto this day not sure if not maybe the hardware fix was/is the culprit)

I got it to work once i disabled all the three :-/
But i refrained from using the HD card, because i could live without DMA and even USB, but not without web access.

So...i wish you luck that you don't have the same problems

Just ask if you want to know anything

@Raziel

i test the 3 video cards, an all i can see the uboot and the loading kiks layout modules but after the Kickstarts will not initialized...

i disabled all the usb and pull off all the boards... but in the 3 case the same results.

Now i will try to reinstall the OS4 just because i have the feeling that something is missed.. wil see soon...

How to know if the machine is dma fixed?

@tlosm
Do you have the RadeonHD.chip installed (in SYS:kickstart drawer)?
http://www.a-eon.com/?page=radeonhd



http://hdrlab.org.nz/projects/amiga-os-4-projects/radeonhd-driver/

MODEL - RADEONHD VERSION - SATUS

AmigaOne XE (Unfixed) - 0.7 - Working
-33 MHz slot only; UBoot does not detect the card properly when plugged into the 66 MHz slot.

AmigaOne XE (with DMA fix) - 0.7 - Partial
-USB must be disabled or the machine will freeze. The DMA fix appears to cause a hard lockup when large amounts of data (e.g., bitmaps) are sent over the bus and USB is active (possibly a conflict with USB DMA transfers)

@tlosm

@jabirulo

Thanks for reminding me
Yes, you cannot use two gfx card in the XE (because the 33MHz slot can't be used and the other slot holds only one card)

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Thats a bummer :-/
You may want to use a serial cable to Redirect serial output to be able to see whats going on.

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You do have PCIGraphics.card in your Devs:Monitors/?
And you did follow the steps from A-EON's Dual Graphics Card guide?
EDIT: The above is probably moot as you can't use two gfx boards anyway

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I'm not sure... i know that were an extra cable soldered on the back of the board, but i don't know if it was done for the USB or DMA fix.

I don't think you can really tell if not through information from the first holder

@Raziel

Yes i have the Radeonhd drivers registered from Aeon
... About the dma fix i think is fixed because dont freeze with usb enabled ...
About the 33mhz pci i read about before starting the installation, if i put in 66mhz the card isnt inizialized and cant see nothing .

About the 2 cards ... i only put the radeonhd alone ...
In any case thanks probably only Mr Hans can help about :P

@tlosm

I'd open a new thread on the HDRLab forums about this, Hans is *the* man to help here

Does your cards have both VGA and DVI/HDMI?

Did you try to plug your monitor in both?

Do you have sound?
(Better yet, do you hear the boot jingle?)

@Raziel

no ... no sound i see the keyboards lamps and after nothing yet ...
will wait hans or the 4.2 for know what to do

@tlosm

Well, if the keyboard shows some life nothing is lost

Do you have PS2 or USB keyboards logged on?
I guess PS2 as you said you disabled USB?

Have you tried with the other gfx card output yet?

@Raziel
I try all but for the 4450 and 7750 only the dvi/hdmi out put free this because the GPU board are big + the Pcie-Pci adaptor the vga output come closed by the case.
The 6650 is a low profile and i can test there the VGA But for all the cards I had the same result...
Uboot showed, i can navigate the uboot menu and i can see the kickstart loading , keyboard blinking andafter nothing more...

Mr hans only can found the truth , I can only make the tests ;)

Note the 4450HD and 6650HD work on my 460ex , the 7750HD look like is not compatible with radeonhd or with Sam Hardware (but this one i test on a pc with adaptor pcie-pci and i can see win7 and do everything)

I just made the previus message in a normal english more readable,(i wrote it thru iphone) it was look like been wroten by a drunked

@tlosm

you get all the answer regarding linux on AmigaOne at http://amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net/ plus some additional on A1-linux dedicated forum over AW.net

@Lio
Thanks lion Lio :)

Hi guys i installed the Sil board and the uboot dont boot from it do you have any tips?

@tlosm

I guess UBoot sees it already, if not there's a thread at Hyperion.

And that you can't boot from that device i already told you in an earlier post

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@Raziel

ok thanks i will do it :P

i see a strange line on the message

U-Boot 1.1.4 (Mar 16 2006 - 12:23:46)
-- my machine uboot and on the hyperion site is the March 2005 and is 1.1.1


updated:
i found this one
http://sourceforge.net/projects/uboot-amigaone/

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki ... index.php?title=Main_Page

@tlosm

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Eh? wt...
I thought the 1.1.4 firmware were only for SAM's?

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Yes, it was started to fix some bugs and add the many missing features to uboot...as far as i know it's frozen (or dead?)