[ILUG] Re: New Gateway PCs...

[Paul Wright]

I've got a Gateway 2000 Pentium II 350MHz which has a Soundblaster Audio
64D.

It appears in my /proc/pci as:

 Bus  0, device  12, function  0:
    Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq Unknown device (rev 4).
      Vendor id=1274. Device id=1371.
      Slow devsel.  IRQ 9.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=12.Max
Lat=128.
      I/O at 0xef00 [0xef01].

I'm running Redhat 6.0 and it works fine. The sound configuration
utility detects the card as an ES1371.

I remember having a problem with the sound card all right. I don't think
the driver liked sharing the IRQ with the network card, a quick change
to the bios settings fixed it.

As for the modem, I'd say you're out of luck there.

> 
> Subject: [ILUG] New Gateway PCs...
> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:55:42 +0100
> From: "Larkin Cunningham" <lcunningham at ddsi.decare.com>
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> 
> I recently upgraded my PC to a Gateway 2000 450MHz PIII.  I then proceded to
> install RH6.0 and it was quite successful.  I am having problems though with a
> couple of the cards in my PCI slots.  They are the modem - a Telepath Pro
> 56K(Wimbledon model) - and the sound card a Soundblaster Audio 64D.  I suppose I
> am just wondering if anybody out there has bought a Gateway recently and
> installed Linux.  Is the modem one of those Winmodems (It is a gateway specific
> modem, so info is scarce on the ground and Gateway don't even mention linux on
> their websites)?  I have used all the necessary setup tools and dialing software
> to try and AT the modem but no OK comes back.  KPPP says that that ttyS0 (my
> modem is in COM1:) is busy.  Do I have any alternative but to buy a supported
> external modem?  Has anyone managed to get plug-n-play going to have a modem
> recognised?  As for the sound card, it should be supported - I think.  When I
> use "esd" to try for sound, it fails.  Shouldn't there be a dev/dsp driver?  I
> don't seem to have it; perhaps it is created at installation if a soundcard is
> detected.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated - even if it is to put me out of my misery
> and tell me that neither is supported!
> 
> Larkin.
>