Amithlon

[trekiej]

The above iso works on my ZV5000 hp laptop.

[Methuselas]

Are the updated kernels easily found in an obvious place?  

I thought there were a few, or maybe just 1, web pages that tied all of the latest updates together for folks who still want to try Amithlon.

It can't hurt to share what you have.

Kernel 4 is here, along with new drivers:

http://www.hd-zone.com/amithlon/


Kernel 3.10 and below are here:

http://web.onetel.net.uk/~garycvl/amithlon/

[nyteschayde]

Here you go amithlon and updates from my file server:

http://www.som99.se/Amithlon/

I dug up the article behind the broken link in your readme file. I have temporarily hosted it here. Som99 if you would put it in your .zip file others could get it easily.

http://briesmelonjs.parseapp.com/read%20me.rtf

[som99]

I dug up the article behind the broken link in your readme file. I have temporarily hosted it here. Som99 if you would put it in your .zip file others could get it easily.

http://briesmelonjs.parseapp.com/read%20me.rtf

Thank you, did not check the link to be honest. The file is now added to the amithlon archive at http://www.som99.se/amithlon, also added outside the rar file for those who already have downloaded it

[trekiej]

update:
I have an emachines computer that was pieced together.
It has an AthlonXP cpu, FIC main board, and a Geforce FX5200 graphics card.
The main board is fic part number 53-80584-00,
and the fx5200 is gf5200ua8d12d-m

The cd booted to workbench. The boing ball bounced with one frame ? stuck at top.
I have not installed it yet and want to increase the resolution.
Screen mode said possibly out of video memory when going to 16 or 32 bit color.
Ram 512 mb and video 128 mb. I will have to recheck that and cpu speed. I believe the cpu speed is 1800+.

Thanks.

[Methuselas]

update:
I have an emachines computer that was pieced together.
It has an AthlonXP cpu, FIC main board, and a Geforce FX5200 graphics card.
The main board is fic part number 53-80584-00,
and the fx5200 is gf5200ua8d12d-m

The cd booted to workbench. The boing ball bounced with one frame ? stuck at top.
I have not installed it yet and want to increase the resolution.
Screen mode said possibly out of video memory when going to 16 or 32 bit color.
Ram 512 mb and video 128 mb. I will have to recheck that and cpu speed. I believe the cpu speed is 1800+.

Thanks.

This will work with Gary's kernels. You just can't make a bootable CD with it or the ones after it.

[trekiej]

It will be a while before I install it.
Thanks.

[esc]

This will work with Gary's kernels. You just can't make a bootable CD with it or the ones after it.

How does one do this?

[trekiej]

I believe a combination of freedos and linux.
The rest is for some one else to answer.

[esc]

Amithlon working fine on an Asus AN8-SLI mobo, 7800 GTX PCIe.  AMD X2 4200+ CPU, 2 GB DDR - 4 x 512 MB.  500 watt Antec PSU.

SATA can be a bugger with Amithlon, but not having any issues with this combo with SATA hd's.  500 GB SATA HD, and an IDE CR-RW.  SATA optical drives were a bit on and off, so just used the onboard IDE with no issues.

Hey Duce,

What kernel do you use? And what is your grub menu.lst line for that setup? I can't get it to work with 4x512mb, I can only get it to boot with 2x512. Also, I can only get the pcie gpu to work in VESA mode. Please help. Are you using onboard usb/ethernet/sound as well or do you have other pci cards? Thanks!

[trekiej]

I would like to add a Compaq Presario 6370us.
It will not work with the mouse.

[esc]

Is it a USB or PS2 mouse?

[Pyromania]

Does Amithlon run in a VMware Virtual Machine?

[trekiej]

@esc: the mouse is a usb mouse. I have not had any problems with my other machines, except on the laptop the previous windows would close quickly after I double click on a drawer icon. The drawer would open.

@pyro: I could not get it to run on virtualbox (32bit).

[esc]

Hmm, everything I've read so far says to use a PS2 mouse, so that's what I have and there are no issues with it.

I'm still stuck on a few things, though:
1 - the Geforce 7800 GTX PCIe card - seems to only work in vesa? I don't think it's problematic but running such a powerful card in VESA seems like a waste. I've tried booting 3.10 kernel, kernel 4, etc., with various menu.lst entries and Picasso96 can only ever find card0-vesa
2 - Using any web browser causes guru meditations or the system freezes, but only when the NIC is active. I've ordered a separate fully supported NIC to try to fix this
3 - Poseidon sees my flash drive when I insert it but it fails enumeration each time, no matter what port..?
4 - No sound. Ordered SB128. Hopefully that works.
5 - HDToolBox could only see a small portion of my &76 partition, and it could only make a couple partitions for Amithlon using a fraction of the available space. I feel like I wasted a ton of space. Is there a way to get it to play nice with my ~130 gigs?
6 - Using ffs, because that's what was on the CDRom, and I couldn't format my drives from within winuae mounting the &76 partition. How would one use pfs3 or something more modern?

[trekiej]

One question I have is, what does one need to get better resolutions after boot?
I adjusted p96 and all appeared to be the same.
It seems to point to the video card.