@Bigfoot

I was just checking in to see if there was any update?

So, I wanted to get an issue that I'm experiencing reported somewhere. Please note that my system is perfectly usable, it's just that if it turns out there is some bug, then obviously someone somewhere needs to know. I guess probably @bigfoot

I figured I'd start here but if after my description it's more appropriate for me to file a bug report then please let me know.

I have a bit of a weird hardware config, but I know I'm not the only one. I have a Cyrus X5040 board. My primary 16x slot has an RX560 card for OS4. I have a Sound Blaster Live (EMU10K1) in the first PCI slot (the one next to the PCIe slots) and I have added a 256MB X1600 Pro card to the system via both a x16->x4 pcie adapter and a x16->x1 pcie adapter. Not at the same time! This causes a number of issues.

My serial cable is permanently connected to the X5000 so I get debug messages over serial console to my Mac.

1. I get the following messages repeated a lot. If the card is direct in the x16 slot (no RX card) then I get them once in a while, if it is in the x4 slot (with RX card in the x16) I get them a lot more often, in the x1 slot, almost constantly. My question is, are these coming from the driver (Rnnn ?) or somewhere else? And are they just benign and can be ignored?
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2. If I use the x4 slot / adapter then my sound card has massively distorted/corrupt sound in many apps and is largely unusable. A consequence of these spurious interrupts perhaps? This is why I currently use the x1 adapter which is one of those ones designed for crypto mining. At x1, I have only seen some sound corruption in Fallout2-ce. Would be nice to play that, but hardly the end of the world. Otherwise the sound is fine in this config.

3. If I use the application 'easy2install' then I have to disable image previews for the application. If I don't then after the application has updated the list for any category then I get a complete system hard lockup. Since there is no core dump or error reported over serial, I would assume this is a GPU system lockup. But also the lack of error message anywhere means it's not desperately easy to give much info. I can't replicate the problem on my PowerBook G4 so it's definitely related to my X5000 or X1600 pro card. I haven't yet tried moving the card to the primary 16x slot to see if the problem goes away. Largely because I'm getting to the point of being fed up keep taking the system apart but in the interests of science I can of course do this.

Apologies for such a long post / report.

Just wanted to update this. I've spent a long weekend getting Linux installed on the same machine and that process has provided a little clarity.

On point 3, the crash, I've moved the X1600 Pro to be my only card and it's in the x16 slot. I still get the crash with preview in easy2install. So it's driver, or card related I guess, but nothing to do with those spurious interrupts because I don't get any of those messages now.

Point 2, the various adapters - the x1 PCIe adapter is out. Linux would not boot with it at all. Well, I think it was booting but there was a constant stream of error messages so it never fully came up. I do know it's possible to use these kind of adapters however as others have done so, so I will order a new x4 adapter if I can find one.

Hopefully someone is seeing these potential bug reports. Looking forward to a new release at some point. Along the way I also bought a passively cooled HD2600. It works in 2D and appears to be on the "todo" list for one day. Silence is golden