The Elite's K7s5a mainboard HOWTO

The Elite's K7s5a mainboard HOWTO

Sebfrance sebfrance@ifrance.com, Andreas Willenbrink

Andreas.Willenbrink@web.de, Aacutelvaro Reguly nospam-alvaro@reguly.netv1.3, 2002-04-19

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

1. Introduction

2. The integrated sound board

• 2.1 Getting the ALSA drivers
• 2.2 Installing them
• 2.3 Kernel Approach: The AC'97 Driver

3. The mainboard's sensors

• 3.1 Getting the drivers
• 3.2 Installing them

4. The mainboard's LAN adapter

• 4.1 Making it work...

5. Other

• 5.1 Links
• 5.2 Some words

1. Introduction

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 also find later the drivers for the sensors.

2. The integrated sound board

2.1 Getting the ALSA drivers

So we'll compiling the latest sources from ALSA, which should work for any other distrib as well... just 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 -source-2.4.3-20mdk.i586.rpm

and grab the tarball from ALSA:

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

2.2 Installing them

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

2.3 Kernel Approach: The AC'97 Driver

If you are using a 2.4 or later kernel you can use the Audio Codec '97 (AC'97) sound driver, as the integrated sound card is AC'97 complaint.

You may enable your soundcard with a kernel module, as a matter of fact, you should be able to just use the module without even recompiling your kernel, because most GNU/Linux distributions have it already, just type:

modprobe i810_audio

and you should see something like this in your syslog:

Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21, 21:31:04 Apr 15 2002 i810: SiS 7012 found at IO 0xd800 and 0xdc00, IRQ 11 i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 2 channels. ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x414c:0x4710 (ALC200/200P) i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2

or type

dmesg | less and scroll to see the kernel messages.

If everything went fine, you may add i810_audio to /etc/modules so it will autoload everytime you boot:

echo "i810_audio" >> /etc/modules

or you like monolitic kernels (no modules), follow the step above to install the kernel sources and say Y to Sound card support and Y to Intel ICH (i8xx) audio support compile your kernel, install, reboot and now your integrated soundcard is working.

If you don't know how to compile a kernel, read the Kernel HOWTO, it's easy and you'll get a optimized kernel for you system, also you'll learn a bit about that talk of using the source code (yes you are already taking advantage of it :-)

3. The mainboard's sensors

3.1 Getting the drivers

Get the lm_sensors 2.6.2 or more recent: http://www.lm-sensors.nu/archive/lm_sensors-2.6.2.tar.gz You'll need kernel sources too in order to compile that one.

3.2 Installing them

tar -xzvf i2c-2.6.2.tar.gz

cd i2c-2.6.2

make && make install

Then there was a problem when making install for me, so if it doesn't work, just do the following:

cp kernel/i2c-core.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/i2c-core.o

cp kernel/i2c-proc.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/i2c-proc.o

Now let's copy the specific driver:

cp kernel/chips/it87.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/it87.o

ok now

cp prog/sensors/sensors /usr/bin/sensors

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

alias char-major-89 i2c-dev options it87 temp_type=0x31

now:

modprobe i2c-proc

modprobe it87

modprobe i2c-isa

sensors

should output you some data

When it works, you can write it to a file, that will be loaded automatically on boot. Under SuSE the file is: /etc/init.d/boot.local (used to be /sbin/init.d/) and you should just add: sensors -s Under mandrake, the install should have created that file: /etc/init.d/sensors, which you can edit freely, sensord being just a daemon to watch over temperature and fan speed, I assume no one will need something like that for her/his own machine.

Now as root you should edit your /etc/sensors.conf search for that line: chip "it87-*" and below you should be able to modify everything to get the right data, here is a copy of what i have in there: (please note that temp1 is trash and only temp2 and temp3 should be kept)

chip "it87-*"

1. The values below have been tested on Asus CUSI, CUM motherboards.
2. Voltage monitors as advised in the It8705 data sheet

label in0 "VCore" label in1 "Vcc2.5v" label in2 "Vcc5v" label in3 "+5V" label in4 "+12V" label in5 "-12V" label in6 "-5V" label in7 "SB 5V" label in8 "V battery" set in0_min 1.5 * 0.95 set in0_max 1.5 * 1.05 set in1_min 2.4 set in1_max 2.6 set in2_min 3.3 * 0.95 set in2_max 3.3 * 1.05 set in3_min 5.0 * 0.95 set in3_max 5.0 * 1.05 set in4_min 12 * 0.95 set in4_max 12 * 1.05 set in5_min -12 * 0.95 set in5_max -12 * 1.05 set in6_min -5 * 0.95 set in6_max -5 * 1.05 set in7_min 5 * 0.95 set in7_max 5 * 1.05

1. vid not monitored by IT8705F

ignore vid

1. For this family of chips the negative voltage equation is different from
2. the lm78. The chip uses two external resistor for scaling but one is
3. tied to a positive reference voltage. See ITE8705/12 datasheet (SIS950
4. data sheet is wrong)
5. Vs = (1 + Rin/Rf) * Vin - (Rin/Rf) * Vref.
6. Vref = 4.096 volts, Vin is voltage measured, Vs is actual voltage.

compute in2 (1 + 1)*@ , @/(1 + 1) compute in3 ((6.8/10)+1)*@ , @/((6.8/10)+1) compute in4 ((30/10) +1)*@ , @/((30/10) +1)

1. The next two are negative voltages (-12 and -5).
2. The following formulas must be used. Unfortunately the datasheet
3. does not give recommendations for Rin, Rf, but we can back into
4. them based on a nominal +2V input to the chip, together with a 4.096V Vref.
5. Formula:
6. actual V = (Vmeasured * (1 + Rin/Rf)) - (Vref * (Rin/Rf))
7. For -12V input use Rin/Rf = 6.68
8. For -5V input use Rin/Rf = 3.33
9. Then you can convert the forumula to a standard form like:

compute in5 (7.67 * @) - 27.36 , (@ + 27.36) / 7.67 compute in6 (4.33 * @) - 13.64 , (@ + 13.64) / 4.33 compute in7 ((6.8/10)+1)*@ , @/((6.8/10)+1)

1. Temperature

label temp3 "Processor" set temp3_over 40 set temp3_hyst 20 label temp2 "Mainboard" set temp2_over 45 set temp2_hyst 25 ignore temp1

1. Fans

label fan1"Processor's Fan" set fan1_min 2000 ignore fan3 ignore fan2

4. The mainboard's LAN adapter

4.1 Making it work...

If your board came with the optional on-board LAN card, you have a Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS? SiS900 10/100 Fast Ethernet card, this card is supported by Linux kernels 2.4 and later (that I know of, as I only use 2.4 kernels).

To make it work you should type

modprobe sis900

and you should see something like this in your syslog:

sis900.c: v1.08.02 11/30/2001 eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 5, 00:d0:09:ea:7a:98.

or type

dmesg | less and scroll to see the kernel messages.

If everything went fine, you may add sis900.o to /etc/modules so it will autoload everytime you boot:

echo "sis900" >> /etc/modules

or compile it in your kernel, where you should say Y to SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support in your kernel configuration.

5. Other

5.1 Links

Warning: If your board is working fine, then don't fix it. Anyway here are the cool links:

* Elite Group (new BIOS)

*

* Overclockers Work Bench

*

* ECS K7s5a FAQ

*

* french guide for the K7S5a *

5.2 Some words

Using a modified BIOS, I was able to successfully overclock my Athlon 1000Mhz to 1050Mhz flawlessy, but when I messed with hdparm (30Gig Western Digital hard drive) using ''hdparm

• c1 -X66 /dev/hda'', I managed

to corrupt my filesystem, so beware.

If you are a real tweaker, you might want to change your BIOS Logo and stuff, some people tried that and it worked OK, some others not, so they had to flash their BIOS again (blindly with a bootdisk and a working bios in it) to make the board work again. It is really up to you. Search Google or OC Workbench and you'll be on your way.

Good Luck! :-)