The Ultimate Amithlon Hardware?

[Methanoid]

There are MANY boards that run 100% with Amithlon but arent listed.. I ran some 945 chipset boards and G31 boards with Core2Duos fine.. Why run something old and clunky?

[Methanoid]

Look for Milanca's kernel (v4). The old kernels were not "supposed" to work with SATA but worked fine for me with an Intel D945GCLF2. Pretty sure sound and LAN are supported by new drivers and although the onboard VGA gives VESA only you could pop a PCI FX5200 in the slot if you felt the need but FX5200==GMA950 near enough..

[Methanoid]

Are any of you Amithloners using Kernel4 and more than 1Gb of Ram physically present in system?

I have only had one board that would even boot with 2Gb present, even if Amithlon is restricted to 512Mb to use... I want to dual boot and would prefer to have 4-8Gb of Ram present for other OS.

[Methanoid]

Anybody got Amithlon working on motherboard with SiS 741GX north bridge and SiS 963L south bridge chipsets? I found such motherboard (ASROCK K7S41GX2) still available in our local shop.

From memory thats a complete waste of time. SIS VGA would be VESA only, LAN & Sound unlikely to be supported unless added by Milanca kernel. Basically you'd have to add VGA, LAN & Sound cards.. might as well choose something else!

[Methanoid]

Anyone remind me if Amithlon needs PS2 KB & Mouse or if I can use USB KB & Mouse?