Re: I got me a laptop :)
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 10:23:40AM -0900, Aaron Dewell wrote:
>
> On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, CaT wrote:
> > 1. Sound. This laptop has an ESS ES1980 PCI sound card. Neither of the
> > ESS options in the kernel worked. Does anyone know if it's possible
> > to get sound out of this sucker under linux?
> >
> > Here's the lspci output for it btw:
> >
> > 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology: Unknown device 199a
> >
> > (doesn't look promising :/)
>
> If it's a newer device (like the Maestro-3 in my laptop) that isn't
> supported/recognized by the OSS/Free drivers in the kernel, you might
> check out www.alsasound.com or www.opensound.com. The latter will cost
> you $30 for the base+driver, but they are pretty solid.
I'm going to go and try the free package... which i believe is like what they're
selling except that it only last for 7 days or something, no?
> Of course, your problem could be something else, too, try updating to
> the latest kernel, too.
Already on 2.2.18pre19. Might try 2.3.x but am a wee bit fearful of
fs corruption.
> Actually, come to think of it, yours could actually be a Maestro-3 as
> well. Here's mine:
>
> 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10)
Mine's an ES199a:
00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology: Unknown device 199a
Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 5300
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 2 min, 24 max, 64 set
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at 1000
Region 1: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI+ D1+ D2+ PME-
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> > 2. Modem. The mini-pci card in this sucker is both an eepro 100 and a
> > real modem (not a winmodem - the sales guy was adamnant about that
> > and sounded like he knew what the difference was :). The card is a
> > Xircom and here's the only details I have atm:
> >
> > 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 09)
> > 00:0d.1 Serial controller: Xircom: Unknown device 00d3
>
> As long as it recognizes a serial device, it should assign in a ttyS* and
> use it. Did you try out minicom/seyon on it?
Yes but no go. tried playing with setserial but it ddn't do anything. As I said
in a prev letter I do have the irq and io port but the modem don't wanna play
ball. :/
> I'm assuming the ether card works for you?
Yes. Beautifully.
> > 3. Gfx card :) Which X driver is the best for it? It's a
> >
> > S3 Savage IX Multi Display Accelerator. 2X AGP 8MB SGRAM
>
> You can get it to work in one of two ways. Using the frame buffer
> X server and compiling in VEST FB support in the kernel. Pain in
> the butt and rather slow (non-accelerated), but it works. Or, you
Console framebuffer is slow enough with vesa support. 8( don't think
I could take X being this slow or slower...
> can grab the "beta" version of this driver. This was the URL given
> to me by someone at XFree86.org, and works on Savage IX and MX:
>
> http://www.probo.com/timr/savagemx.html
Got this very site off my friend (only remembered it after I sent
out the email). The driver from it works great so far.
> You may want to check and see if it has been rolled into the main
> XFree distribution yet, if it has, go for that. This download is
> just a replacement for XF86_SVGA, nothing else.
Nope. Least not that I saw from my fiddling with the debian svga
driver.
> Good luck!
Thanks. I hope I can get sound and modem to work. That'd be too cool...
--
CaT (cat@zip.com.au)
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