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The Elite's K7s5a mainboard HOWTO

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The Elite's K7s5a mainboard HOWTO. ...........................................................................................................1

Sebfrance rf.eerf@otwohecnarfbes, Andreas Willenbrink ed.bew@knirbnelliW.saerdnA, Álvaro

Reguly ten.yluger@oravla, Paolo Berva moc.ts@avreb.oloap, (Get a mirror :) . .................................1

1. Introduction. .........................................................................................................................................1

2. The integrated sound board. .................................................................................................................1

3. The mainboard's sensors. .....................................................................................................................1

4. The mainboard's LAN adapter. ............................................................................................................1

5. Other. ...................................................................................................................................................1

6. Contributions. ......................................................................................................................................2

1. Introduction. .........................................................................................................................................2

1.1 History. ..............................................................................................................................................2

1.2 License and copyright. .......................................................................................................................2

2. The integrated sound board. .................................................................................................................2

2.1 ALSA versus the AC'97 Driver. ........................................................................................................2

2.2 Alsa. ...................................................................................................................................................2

Getting the ALSA drivers. .................................................................................................................2

Installation. ........................................................................................................................................3

2.3 Alsa the Debian way. .........................................................................................................................3

Using a Debian package with a precompiled kernel. ........................................................................3

Using a Debian kernel source package. .............................................................................................4

/etc/alsa/modutils/0.9. ........................................................................................................................5

2.4 Kernel Approach: The AC'97 Driver. ................................................................................................5

3. The mainboard's sensors. .....................................................................................................................6

3.1 lm−sensors. ........................................................................................................................................6

Getting the drivers. ............................................................................................................................6

Installing them. ..................................................................................................................................6

3.2 lm−sensors the Debian way. ..............................................................................................................7

3.3 Sensors.conf for the K7s5a. ..............................................................................................................8

3.4 Sensors on 2.6 kernels.. ......................................................................................................................9

Kernel 2.6.1 configuration:. ..............................................................................................................9

Setting up the modules. ...................................................................................................................10

The lm_sensors user tools. ..............................................................................................................10

3.5 Newer version of Sensors.conf. .......................................................................................................11

4. The mainboard's LAN adapter. ..........................................................................................................13

4.1 Making it work... .............................................................................................................................13

5. Other. .................................................................................................................................................13

5.1 Knoppix ...........................................................................................................................................13

5.2 Notes about parallel port networking (PLIP) and floppy bus. .........................................................14

5.3 Notes about mainboard replacemen. ...............................................................................................14

5.4 Links. ...............................................................................................................................................15

5.5 Sensors.conf for the K7s5a−pro.. .....................................................................................................15

5.6 Some words (About BIOS). .............................................................................................................17

Alvaro. .............................................................................................................................................17

Karl. .................................................................................................................................................17

6. Contributions. ....................................................................................................................................17

6.1 Contributors. ....................................................................................................................................17

The Elite's K7s5a mainboard HOWTO

Sebfrance rf.eerf@otwohecnarfbes,

Andreas Willenbrink ed.bew@knirbnelliW.saerdnA,

Álvaro Reguly ten.yluger@oravla,

Paolo Berva moc.ts@avreb.oloap,

(Get a mirror :) )

v2.0, 2004−05−16

How to use Elite's K7s5a mainboard under GNU/Linux.

1. Introduction

· 1.2 License and copyright

1.1 History

2. The integrated sound board

· 2.2 Alsa

2.1 ALSA versus the AC'97 Driver

· 2.3 Alsa the Debian way

· 2.4 Kernel Approach: The AC'97 Driver

3. The mainboard's sensors

· 3.2 lm−sensors the Debian way

3.1 lm−sensors

· 3.3 Sensors.conf for the K7s5a

· 3.4 Sensors on 2.6 kernels

· 3.5 Newer version of Sensors.conf

4. The mainboard's LAN adapter

4.1 Making it work...

5. Other

· 5.2 Notes about parallel port networking (PLIP) and floppy bus

5.1 Knoppix

· 5.3 Notes about mainboard replacement

· 5.4 Links

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The Elite's K7s5a mainboard HOWTO

· 5.6 Some words (About BIOS)

5.5 Sensors.conf for the K7s5a−pro

6. Contributions

6.1 Contributors

1. Introduction

1.1 History

I got the mainboard for Christmas 2001, and after a little while, I understood that the new chipset sis735 was

not handled by Mandrake 8.0, OSS had drivers for it that worked but I didn't really want to pay for it, so I

looked on ALSA cvs and found that in their latest sources they had something for the sis 7012, and a bit later I

found the drivers for the sensors.

It has now been 3 years I started this howto and I am always glad to get comments, advices from everywhere

in the world :]

− Sébastien

1.2 License and copyright

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License .

2. The integrated sound board

2.1 ALSA versus the AC'97 Driver

I have used both solutions successfully. However I noticed while working on a speech synthesis system (I was

involved in a small accessibility project), that the kernel driver does not seem to be able to re−sample,

whereas Alsa does it perfectly.

2.2 Alsa

Getting the ALSA drivers

So we will be compiling the latest sources from ALSA, which should work for all other distributions as well...

only the kernel sources will change because mandrake uses specific patches.

You may get your kernel sources from your distribution or from http://www.kernel.org

Here can be found Mandrake sources for the kernel used in 8.0:

ftp://ftp.univ−savoie.fr/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/kernel

6. Contributions

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−source−2.4.3−20mdk.i586.rpm

(link seems to be broken, I wish I had made a copy if someone needed but here is the problem with that

distribution, mirrors are not kept long enough)

and grab the tarball from ALSA:

ftp://ftp.alsa−project.org/pub/driver/alsa−driver−0.9.0beta10.tar.bz2

Installation

Install your kernel sources, in my case:

rpm −ivh kernel−source−2.4.3−20mdk.i586.rpm

Then decompress alsa drivers:

bzip2 −d alsa−driver−0.9.0beta10.tar.bz2 && tar −xvf alsa−driver−0.9.0beta10.tar

Make them and install them and create the devices files:

cd alsa−driver−0.9.0beta10 && make install && ./snddevices

Edit /etc/modules.conf to set everything, and add to it the following lines:

alias char−major−116 snd

alias char−major−14 soundcore

alias sound−slot−0 snd−card−0

alias sound−service−0−0 snd−mixer−oss

alias sound−service−0−1 snd−seq−oss

alias sound−service−0−3 snd−pcm−oss

alias sound−service−0−8 snd−seq−oss

alias sound−service−0−12 snd−pcm−oss

alias snd−card−0 snd−card−intel8x0

warning: Christian Cardinale rf.libertysurf@elanidrac.naitsirhc reports that he had to change

'snd−card−intel8x0' for 'snd−intel8x0', which corresponds to what I have for my Debian system, I no longer

remember, but I think this one is the mandrake name, if it doesn't work, just use to the other, ok?

2.3 Alsa the Debian way

I've switched to Debian some time after writing this howto and wanted to give some instructions about it:

Things may change a little depending on which version you're using, I use Debian sarge, currently the testing

version.

Using a Debian package with a precompiled kernel

First of all, you can directly download the appropriate precompiled alsa modules: find out which kernel you're

using

uname −r

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