Amithlon question

[mihcael]

more links added,

x86 Amiga - Amithlon / AROS

a few sites with some benchmarks for amithlon and a bunch more AROS links too!

[Seiya]

here some benchmark within Amithlon, AmigaOne and Pegasos 1 and 2.

http://xoomer.alice.it/tuxcam/bench/result.html

or to make same test:

http://xoomer.alice.it/tuxcam/bench/

[Seiya]

LAst night I dug out my old Amithlon CD.

Out of curiosity i tried it on my ASUS K8N-VM Mobo with Athlon 64 3200+, nForce 4 chipset and PCI-Express Geforce.

To my pleasant surprise the CD booted perfectly into Workbench.

nVidia certainly know how to get backwards compatibility right

Yes, it booted, but no pci-x is supported for now and you cannot change your resolution...and color

[TheMagicM]

I have it but forgot why... It didnt work right on my first setup..dont know if it works w/the new one..

[DrBombcrater]

Yes, it booted, but no pci-x is supported for now and you cannot change your resolution...and color

PCI-X is fully supported by Amithlon, even using the original kernel. It's PCI Express that isn't supported - or, to be more accurate, most of the chips used on PCI-E graphics cards are not yet supported by the kernel video drivers.

If you get a PCI-E card that has a chipset that's already supported via AGP (like the GeForce FX series) it will probably work fine. I can't guarantee that, however, because the machines I do kernel development work on are all AGP. I don't actually own a single PCI-E card, hence no official support in the drivers till I can get hold of one and a suitable board to plug it into.

I hope to get this sorted soon, because with the next kernel bringing in support for SATA, GigE and most types of on-board audio, PCI-E is starting to look like the main problem in Amithlon's hardware support.

[Syperhawk]

Softhut has it


SyperHawk

[mihcael]

Thanks Seiya!

Cool stuff!

[mihcael]

Updated Amithlon Kernel!

http://www.garycvl.f2s.com/amithlon.html

* Support for more GeForce FX models (ie, 5700, 5100, etc)
* Support for GeForce PCX PCI-Express cards.
* General bugfixes to the GeForce and Radeon drivers.
* SATA support (yay!) for VIA 8237 and NVidia NForce 3/4 chipsets.
* Gigabit ethernet via the VIA 6120 & 6122 Velocity chips.
* Ethernet driver for NForce 3/4 chipsets.
* Support for more AC97 audio codecs.
+more....

The most up-to-date hardware support for amiga?

[Oepabakkes]

When is someone *really* going to make a supportsite for Amithlon? It's all scattered: the new kernel, good work ... but where do you find info as a newbie how to use it? Anyway I came to the point where Amithlon booted fine from my HD ( and it still does ) but when I tried to swap the kernel on my bootpartition (C:) with the new one ... no boot. So i swapped it back to the old one .
Then I tried to get the USB working and via the OPENpciwebsite I downloaden arrackattack and poseidon... Poseidon always asks for powerpci.library 2.14+. Ofcours The VMC website does not provide this files anymore and somewhere else I read that poseidon should use openpci.library wich it obviously does not while I do have it installed and downloaded poseidon via the openpci website.

To make a long story short, it needs a good website , a real one and not some mailgroup ofcours.
Some people interested in a joint-effort?Something like OS4-depot? Amithlon-depot?

[rzool]

Hi !

I've started a wiki about Amithlon, called wikithlon, and available here http://amithlon.free.fr. I've uploaded it some hours ago so there's not many thing on it, i'm currently writing some articles on how to customize the cd (how to replace isolinux by grub, how to modify the initial ramdisk file, and more). I've collected many files here http://amithlon.free.fr/files too.

Actually it's all in french, but after reading this thread, i think it may be a good thing to make it international. So i'll probably change the wiki engine by a better one (wikipedia should be fine). Current design has been made quickly, works under ibrowse/aweb, but i think it should be good to change it too.

Contact me, if you're interested or if you have some ideas

[Oepabakkes]

best is to start to make it international I think ? Ce n'est pas parceque je ne comprends pas du Francais... but it doesn't really help the worldwide Amithlonusers I think. An extensive compatibilitylist that can be updated with model,make,... maybe?

And a petition to revive it  :cry: . By now most people involved should be cooled down and maybe an agreement can be made? Or it can be sold or I do not know what ?

[Frags]

I think Bernie Meyer is still bitter about the whole thing to this day (rightly so I guess).  Bernie?

[cecilia]

Frags wrote:
I think Bernie Meyer is still bitter about the whole thing to this day (rightly so I guess).  Bernie?

actually, I suspect he has simply moved on. it's healthier

[Oepabakkes]

I can believe that, but you can always fall in love again with an old girlfriend ;-)  but maybe he can pass it on to someone else ? Or can the Amithlon source be opened ? I don't know, for that and many other reasons a new website should be started. Especially to collect all the information in one place... These days you have to seek for everything and if it goes on like this it's going to be lost forever on the net. Try to find a non-broken link for powerpci.library 2.14+ , my poseidonstack wants it.

[rzool]

If a new website should be started, it'll be probably made by some amihlon lovers ... And i think a wiki is the best way to collect informations.

You can find powerpci-2.16 here : http://amithlon.free.fr/files/utilities/pci/
(sorry, my 2.14 version archives was broken :s)

[Oepabakkes]

thnx for the file.

I am not familiar with Wiki, but if it can be used to collect all information about Amithlon so it gets preserved for the future it's fine by me.