Asus A1000 non working for pcmcia, infrared and video.

[Giuseppe Sacco <eppesuigoccas@libero.it>]

Hi,
I have many problems related to this laptop:

Asus A1000, celeron 750, 196MB, 15Gb HD, TFT 1024x768x16.

video sis630
ide   sis5513
audio sis7018
net   sis900

What I am not able to setup using Debian potato 2.2r3 is:

infrared: I am not even able to understand what chipset is
   installed. modprobing every irda device I get errors trying
   to identifing the device
video: it seems that this video card is supported but only using
   an external monitor. I heard about some improvements using 4.0.3
   but I still have to check it.
audio: during boot the kernel print the message:
	trident SiS 7018 PCI Audio found at IO 0xa800, IRQ 5
        ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, vendor id1: 0x4144, id2: 0x5348 (unknown)
        ac97_codec: AC97 Modem codec, vendor id1: 0x5349, id2: 0x4c26 (unknown)
   This only seems to a be a problem of id. The mpg123 program works fine.
pcmcia: if I start the /etc/init.d/pcmcia script then I get a kernel panic
   and system stops (of course.) Lspci gives this information:
	CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
	Subsystem: Ricoh Co Ltd: unknown device 0476

I tried this with kernels from 2.2.17 to 2.2.19 and from 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 using
the standard Debian kernel image or customized images.

Do you have any suggestion for setting up correctly the system?

Thank you very much,
Giuseppe