NotebookForums.com › Forums › General Notebook Discussions › Linux & Other OS's › I search drivers (Packages) for 4760/D470W To Audio/Modem/Webcam
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

I search drivers (Packages) for 4760/D470W To Audio/Modem/Webcam

post #1 of 10
8/14/03 at 7:53am
Thread Starter 
hello (sorry, my language english is verry bad, I speak French).

The Model Sager 4760 (D470W) or Sager 4060 D400E/D410E

use idem chipset SIS 7018 and SIS 7013 (audio and Modem)
and the webcam Z-STAR inside.

I use Red Hat 9.0



where the package (Drivers) for the models.


Thank you,
Br,
Eric Kranich in FRANCE.
Reply
Reply
post #2 of 10
8/14/03 at 10:28am

Re: I search drivers (Packages) for 4760/D470W To Audio/Modem/Webcam

I think you are asking how you can get the drivers for that hardware to work on linux - as a general rule to add new hardware you need to recompile the kernel. I suggest google searching for the words linux and the chipset you mentioned. The heading over to the linuxdocs pages and checking out the howto on compiling the kernel. Sorry I cant be much more help but Im not exactly sure this is what you want.


Quote:
Originally posted by kranich
hello (sorry, my language english is verry bad, I speak French).

The Model Sager 4760 (D470W) or Sager 4060 D400E/D410E

use idem chipset SIS 7018 and SIS 7013 (audio and Modem)
and the webcam Z-STAR inside.

I use Red Hat 9.0



where the package (Drivers) for the models.


Thank you,
Br,
Eric Kranich in FRANCE.
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 10
8/14/03 at 4:14pm
Thread Starter 

Re: Re: I search drivers (Packages) for 4760/D470W To Audio/Modem/Webcam

thank you for answer,

but, I search drivers, audio, modem and Webcam

Br,

eric Kranich
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 10
8/14/03 at 4:20pm

Re: Re: Re: I search drivers (Packages) for 4760/D470W To Audio/Modem/Webcam

Hrmm ok. Linux doesnt have drivers in the windows sense of the word. Drivers for audio etc are compiled into the kernel. Check out the alsa-org pages for the sound stuff. The modem - you may have to google for people who use that modem and have it working in linux. The webcam is also in the kernel under multimedia.

I would also recommend upgrading the kernel to a 2.6 version (test 1 has been the best for me so far though they are up to test 3) It has better hardware support than 2.4.x



Quote:
Originally posted by kranich
thank you for answer,

but, I search drivers, audio, modem and Webcam

Br,

eric Kranich
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 10
8/14/03 at 5:26pm
OK, so, what we have is: The "core logic" is SiS 645DX+ SiS962; audio: SiS 7018 with AC'97 codec; modem: SiS 7013.

I searched a bit and I came up with some interesting info about audio:
  • Alan Cox says the 7018 is supported in 2.4.18
  • However here is oneuser that had SiS 7018 audio problems with AC97 codec
  • A user reports on installing Debian on a mysterious machine called a "Gericom WebEngine" here. The relevant section:
    Quote:
    * Sound works "out of the box" with 2.4.x trident 4DWave / SiS 7018 driver. Just had to add my user to the audio group: addgroup max audio. In dmesg something like this should appear:
    trident: SiS 7018 PCI Audio found at IO 0xd400, IRQ 10
    ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x414c:0x4710 (ALC200/200P)
    ac97_codec: AC97 Modem codec, id: 0x5349:0x4c22 (Silicon Laboratory Si3036)
    This and other posts seem to indicate that 'trident' is the audio driver to use.
  • Here is a post from someone who had trouble with this audio device on a laptop, though he is using the 2.4.17 kernel.

Let us know how you make out - please post relevant config files, dmesg output, etc. If you don't have any luck then i might try it some more on my 4760 running Debian Woody. (I keep it mostly running Windows these days though. :\ )

BTW - Bratag, isn't it possible to compile external modules to add new drivers? I don't think it's always necessary to recompile the kernel itself in order to add drivers.

HTH
- Ratha

PS. I haven't begun to tackle the webcam or the modem on the 4760 so i'll gloss over that for now...
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 10
8/14/03 at 5:52pm
Thread Starter 
Thank you very much, I will test immediately.

I know GERICOM, it is the mark in Germany.
Reply
Reply
post #7 of 10
8/14/03 at 9:46pm
you can compile specific modules individually if you've already done a 'make clean,' but you have to jump through a few hoops to do it:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...TO.html#AEN272

it's a lot easier if you haven't cleaned out your object files. make will skip any of the objects it doesn't have to recompile. so you could just modularize something and then do a 'make modules' and 'make modules_install,' as long as you keep your object files around and don't 'make clean.'

i generally just redo the whole kernel for consistency, though, so the module dependencies will stay updated and the .config in my source directory won't be different from the kernel i'm running.
Reply
Reply
post #8 of 10
8/15/03 at 12:25am
Yep I am with you xiphus - Ratha yes it is possible to do that (in fact vmware does that etc) However for the most part drivers are additions to the kernel, or they are in the kernel but not turned on 9/10 times I would say reconfig and recompile


Quote:
Originally posted by xiphux
you can compile specific modules individually if you've already done a 'make clean,' but you have to jump through a few hoops to do it:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...TO.html#AEN272

it's a lot easier if you haven't cleaned out your object files. make will skip any of the objects it doesn't have to recompile. so you could just modularize something and then do a 'make modules' and 'make modules_install,' as long as you keep your object files around and don't 'make clean.'

i generally just redo the whole kernel for consistency, though, so the module dependencies will stay updated and the .config in my source directory won't be different from the kernel i'm running.
Reply
Reply
post #9 of 10
8/15/03 at 10:22am
Quote:
Originally posted by Bratag
Yep I am with you xiphus - Ratha yes it is possible to do that (in fact vmware does that etc) However for the most part drivers are additions to the kernel, or they are in the kernel but not turned on 9/10 times I would say reconfig and recompile
That's cool, but I mean, just two days ago I installed a sound driver on my desktop (w/ Debian, 2.4.21 kernel) for the SoundBlaster Audigy. I guess the emu10k1 driver in the 2.4 kernel doesn't support that particular card yet so I downloaded the emu10k1 package from SourceForge, unzipped it into a separate directory, pointed its config at my built kernel sources, did 'make', and it produced an add-on emu10k1.o which it then installed into my existing /lib/modules tree. Then a 'depmod -a' and addition of 'emu10k1' to /etc/modules to make it load at startup, and I was done. Pretty easy process, I thought... and it made sound work ... granted, I'm no expert at this, but I seem to have major headaches when I build kernels, always leaving out important things and not knowing why my system breaks later...
Reply
Reply
post #10 of 10
8/15/03 at 10:36am
Yep - no problem with that at all (basically its the same as putting the code in the kernel without putting it in the tree ). Congrats on getting sound to work btw. Try keeping a copy of a working .config file - that way you can always go back to one that works at least.


Quote:
Originally posted by Ratha@PCTorque
That's cool, but I mean, just two days ago I installed a sound driver on my desktop (w/ Debian, 2.4.21 kernel) for the SoundBlaster Audigy. I guess the emu10k1 driver in the 2.4 kernel doesn't support that particular card yet so I downloaded the emu10k1 package from SourceForge, unzipped it into a separate directory, pointed its config at my built kernel sources, did 'make', and it produced an add-on emu10k1.o which it then installed into my existing /lib/modules tree. Then a 'depmod -a' and addition of 'emu10k1' to /etc/modules to make it load at startup, and I was done. Pretty easy process, I thought... and it made sound work ... granted, I'm no expert at this, but I seem to have major headaches when I build kernels, always leaving out important things and not knowing why my system breaks later...
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Linux & Other OS's
NotebookForums.com › Forums › General Notebook Discussions › Linux & Other OS's › I search drivers (Packages) for 4760/D470W To Audio/Modem/Webcam