RISC OS 5.20
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Steve Pampling (1551) 8166 posts |
This means the application that can handle the files hasn’t been seen by the system. I’m deliberately phrasing this in a generic way so that it applies for any application you, or anyone with a simialr problem, might be missing. Menu click over the switcher icon (middle mouse button over the cog (or raspberry)) and select configure. |
Matthew Thompson (1448) 13 posts |
Thanks for the reply, it turns out it was missing modules from the !System to do with audio, i’ve put them back in using !sysmerge and it now plays MP3s again, I hope I haven’t added anything I don’t need. I will add !Digital CD in the look at bit during the boot up, it already checks a few things, so one more won’t hurt. cheers |
Chris Hall (132) 3554 posts |
I had some slight difficulty getting the softload to work on my Iyonix (I couldn’t set the screen configuration). I renamed the existing !Boot to !BootOld and copied in the !Boot from the new HardDisc4 520 image. I then followed the instructions to bootmerge the softload tool and restarted. There are now some detailed and very comprehensive instructions linked from the ROM downloads ‘i’ tab explaining the correct steps to move from 5.1x to 5.2×. These are excellent. |
David Pitt (102) 743 posts |
NOOBs seems to be going backwards then, I have just done an overwrite format on a card, downloaded and installed the current NOOBS v1_2_1. The zip is dated 27 Jun 2013 and contains files dated 26 Jun 13. The RISC OS installation turned out to be OS5.19 dated 19-Mar-13, which is rc8. |
Chris Hall (132) 3554 posts |
RC10 (27-Jun-2013) was an update to ‘START.ELF’ and ‘BOOTCODE.BIN’ for changes related to Micron RAM chips and involved no change to the RISC OS ROM (5.19 March 2013) nor to the filecore partition. |
Craig Lynch (1859) 33 posts |
I decided to take the plunge and buy the ROMs for my RISC PC and I’ve gotta say – Wow! Its blisteringly quick, very happy about that. :) So, I ended up just copying IOMDInstall to the hard drive and ran it from there… and it went without a hitch. :) Unfortunately there have also been a couple of setbacks, it seems all my podules are no longer working (understandably) and as such I no longer have network connectivity nor the use of the PowerWAVE DMI. The system can see they are there though so its just a case of 32bitting the drivers and such? I have a UniPod for my networking so figured I’d drop STD an email to see if they might be working on it: > I was just wondering; with all the hubbub and recent developments in Not quite sure what to make of that last comment but hey if anybody else buys in and has a UniPod maybe they’ll work with ROOL and release drivers. Thoughts? |
Rick Murray (539) 13824 posts |
Means either they haven’t got the memo about RISC OS 5 IOMD build, or they haven’t yet twigged that it runs 32 bit. :-) |
Colin Ferris (399) 1812 posts |
Interesting – who replied to your msg to STD – I sent them a 32bit patched version of EtherX 1.45 many months ago – which I have been using for over a year now (Now running SA RPC RO 5.21 Net100) Had a nice reply from Gillian Simpson – but nothing from Advantage 6 – are still at home! Perhaps you could ask them if they were prepared to supply details on their USB podule? (so it could be driven from RO 5) |
Colin Ferris (399) 1812 posts |
Would someone with a A9 and a MultiPod see if the A9 IDEFS modules would work with the MultiPod? How come the IDEFS of APDL and Simtec have the same name – I presume the code is different? |
Colin Ferris (399) 1812 posts |
I see on the ‘Somascape’ website – there is a ref to a DMI50 26/32 bit version 2.24 (02 Feb 2007) |
Nick Brown (1717) 13 posts |
Out of interest what was it running before hand? I know moving from 3.7 to 4.02 my RPC seemed much more responsive – but I also wonder if the extra features in Adjust/ROS 6 might have a performance impact on the RPC over and above the features in 5? |
Craig Lynch (1859) 33 posts |
I was using RO6 before, never actually timed operations beforehand so no sample to test but something to look at when I’ve made a backup of the disk and can hop back the ROM and such, |
Chris Hall (132) 3554 posts |
@Steve |
Jan Rinze (235) 368 posts |
@Craig: how does RO 5.20 on the RPC cope with older non-32 bit software? (Aemulor is not available for Risc PC) |
Timo Heinonen (2025) 3 posts |
Hmm… it seems the occasional freezing during hard disk activity is back with my Iyonix after going to 5.20. Symptoms are the system will completely freeze randomly when copying stuff and usually this will happen if you are doing something else at the same time, or just touch the mouse when copying stuff. Hard disk activity light will stay lit and you need to use power switch at back to get the picture and system booting. Pretty annoying when you download something into Ramdisk and it hangs when you are unpacking things to hard disk, as you lose everything and have to start all over again. Strangely I have not managed to freeze the system even once after softloading 5.21 version, so maybe I will just use that for now. |
Craig Lynch (1859) 33 posts |
@Jan Unfortunately, I’ve found that it errors out. Perhaps with a copy of Aemulor tailored to it, it might work but no luck currently. |
Jan Rinze (235) 368 posts |
@Craig: I spoke with Jan de Boer (who has written some emulators) and we both agree that a fix can be devised by checking the mode bits upon entering IRQ/FIQ/SWI and act upon that accordingly. So we might create a module to cater for that. For now don’t hold your breath.. |
Christopher Martin (1504) 4 posts |
I found exactly the same symptoms which were extremely troublesome. As well as losing work without warning, it produced file system corruption. DiskKnight became my dear friend. And now, the same problem has appeared the day after I install RISC OS 5.22. Apart from “intense disk activity” I have no idea what is causing it. I haven’t been able to save an error report either because no monitoring program gets a chance to do so when the freeze occurs. I’m now running my Iyonix with all buffers/caches off/minimised in the hope of avoiding file system corruption. But it slows the system down. |
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