Amithlon

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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?

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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!

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Is it a USB or PS2 mouse?

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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?

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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!

@Duce please help with the above!!  

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If you hunt around for amithlon 1.3 you may have better luck. Someone hacked together (I think some guys from Turkey) an amithlon bootable iso that has partitioning software and other built-in stuff. Pretty neat.

I'm using the a8n-sli mobo, 1gb ram (2x512mb), realtek 8139 pci ethernet, sb128 sound, and a gtx7800 pcie nvidia gpu.

After installing the amithlon os3.9+bb1/2+updates bits from the CD, I can boot and am now able to use ethernet, sound, usb (had to get the newest version of poseidon and then reinstalled arakattack), and my gpu works very well. However, I can't tell if it's accelerated graphics or not - I try to attach settings to a board in p96 and the only board found is "vesa". Yet the graphics look great and are very fast. The only thing that's slow is scrolling text in a text document, web browser, etc.

It guru's on me pretty frequently, seemingly random. The only programs that work with sound are ones that use AHI. Paula doesn't work (maybe I'll try puhderbear or whatever it's called). It's a neat proof of concept but I'm not sure what to do with it now - setting up UAE in it seems like a bit of a chore and it's the only way to play games that hit hardware and custom chips. I guess we'll see.