[ILUG] Re: New Gateway PCs...

[Gavin Killen]

Right spoke to a friend in Gateway Tech Lab. After he stopped laughing
about the modem he tells me that Gateway US are now shipping Linux
Redhat but he wasn't sure what version. He will try and get me the audio
drivers but as Paul has pointed out don't hold your breath. As for the
sound card try for an newer Sound Blaster Driver or Ensoniq (Gateway
have a tendency to carry over some stock from pre Ensoniq buy out by
Creative) or check Creative themselves. I've been told that little or
nothing has been removed in the OEM version of the latest Gateway Card.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Wright [mailto:zeus at indigo.ie]
Sent: 07 October 1999 21:20
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] Re: New Gateway PCs...


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.
>