Amithlon Computer

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As far as I know most mobo chipsets should be okay. For sound use a Soundblaster 128 or onboard VIA AC97. For graphics the GForce 2 and 3 are supported as well as Voodoo cards. There are kernels for ATI chipsets but I had no luck with my All In Wonder Radeon.

The type of CPU and RAM will depend on the mobo. Case, CD/DVD and hardrives are down to your choice/budget. I don't know which ethernet cards are supported.

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VIA Edens are supported by an experimental kernel so I would hold on that for the moment.

For CPU a P3/Athlon 1Gig or higher should do nicely. I believe 128 MB RAM is the minimum, but as with most PCs, the more you have the better the experience.

I know nothing about the GeForce 256 so I cannot say.

My setup is a MSI nForce mobo, 1.8GHz Athlon XP, 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD, 48x CDRW, 32x CDRW/DVD, ATI All In Wonder, SB128 and 3COM NIC.

This works pretty well with AOS-XL and Amithlon, although under Amithlon I have to use VESA display modes.

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- is CPU speed important and can you tell the difference between say a ~1ghz one or a 2ghz one in normal use?

I've only used one processor, but the faster your processor the faster the emulated processor is

- 1gb RAM!!! Can you actually use all that?

Well it's available to the system, I've never ran enough applications to completely fill my RAM

- I notice you have a 3com nic - does it work properly in Amithlon i thought only ne2000 ones work?

I haven't set up networking under Amithlon yet

- the nForce has a built in GF2 MX have you had any luck getting it to work in Amithlon?

Only in VESA mode, QNX doesn't seem to like it though

- Does the IDE work in bus master mode or PIO 0 or whatever its called?

Don't know, but it is fast

- Geforce 256 = original Gefore so it should work, right?

Wrong. Bernie didn't build in support for every graphics card ever made.

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Dr_Bombcrater:

 - I seem to recall Amithlon will fail to boot if you have 1GB of ram due to an address space problem. Anything less than that should be okay.

One Gig of RAM is fine, my system boots with no problems.

An additional point I would make for anyone about to set up Amithlon on a FAT partition is that it needs to be FAT and NOT FAT32.