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 a bit later I found the drivers for the sensors.
It has now been 3 years I started this howto and I am always glad to get comments, advices from everywhere in the world :]
- Sébastien
Copyright 2004-2072 Sébastien FRANÇOIS
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons License.
I have used both solutions successfully. However I noticed while working on a speech synthesis system (I was involved in a small accessibility project), that the kernel driver does not seem to be able to re-sample, whereas Alsa does it perfectly.
So we will be compiling the latest sources from ALSA, which should work for all other distributions as well... only 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:
(link seems to be broken, I wish I had made a copy if someone needed but here is the problem with that distribution, mirrors are not kept long enough)
and grab the tarball from ALSA:
ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-0.9.0beta10.tar.bz2
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
I've switched to Debian some time after writing this howto and wanted to give some instructions about it: Things may change a little depending on which version you're using, I use Debian sarge, currently the testing version.
First of all, you can directly download the appropriate precompiled alsa modules: find out which kernel you're using
uname -r
2.4.20-3-k7 (should be 2.4.18-k7 or something like that for a woody/stable)
apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.20-3-k7
the card is the "intel8x0 (PCI: Intel i810/i820/i830/i840/MX440 integrated audio)"
you should also install the recommended package alsa-utils
apt-get install alsa-utils
now, check the file /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 against the one given further on this howto. It may also be necessary to run update-modules as root to ensure that these lines get into /etc/modules.conf, although the package installation probably does it itself.
I was forced to recompile my kernel when I got an usb adsl modem. (make-kpkg binary --initrd is something you want to look at someday, but it's off topic)
I'm assuming, you've done at least the following steps:
install the alsa sources and two useful packages: apt-get install alsa-source alsa-utils alsa-base debconf will ask you the following questions:
Say Yes if you want to build ALSA driver with ISA PnP version.
If your computer doesn't support ISA PnP, you may say No.
Build ALSA driver with ISA PnP?
You can safely select 'no'
Say Yes if you want to build ALSA driver with debugging code.
Build ALSA driver with debugging code?
We don't need that either, so select 'no'
You can choose cards to be built by selecting cards you want.
Each selection is a same name to a option of configure script '--with-cards'.
The following list are short descriptions of the options to show what they mean.
Select cards to be built.
Select card intel8x0 (PCI: Intel i810/i820/i830/i840/MX440 integrated audio) and exit.
cd /usr/src
tar xzvf alsa-driver.tar.gz
cd modules/alsa-driver
./configure
make && make install
now, check the file /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9 against this following one.
I only remember changing the cards_limit from 4 to 1, to prevent warnings, any modification of it should be followed by running update-modules in order to regenerate /etc/modules.conf
### DEBCONF MAGIC
# This file was automatically generated by alsa-base's debconf stuff
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
options snd major=116 cards_limit=1 device_mode=0660 device_gid=29 device_uid=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
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 :-)
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.
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.
Paolo reports that in order to start up sensord on boot, he put in /etc/sysconfig/sensors:
MODULE_0=i2c-proc
MODULE_1=it87
MODULE_2=i2c-isa
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)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
This time you'll be forced to compile the modules. install the source and programs:
apt-get install lm-sensors lm-sensors-source
The upstream lm-sensors maintainers know of a problem using
lm-sensors with IBM ThinkPad computers, resulting in
firmware corruption. If you are installing this package on
a ThinkPad, you should wait until the upstream maintainers
have solved this problem before building modules from it.
For more information, see
/usr/share/doc/lm-sensors-source/README.thinkpad.
IBM ThinkPad brokenness -- really install lm-sensors?
cd /usr/src
tar xzvf lm-sensors.tar.gz
cd modules/lm-sensors/
make && make install
Then you should have modutils take a few arguments, the best way is probably to use a new file, like: /etc/modutils/sensors with this content:
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
options it87 temp_type=0x31
update-modules
modprobe i2c-isa it87
You can now type sensors to access to the informations (note that you should edit sensors.conf, otherwise you'll see strange and inaccurate things :] )
You can also put i2c-isa and it87 in /etc/modules (one by line!) to have them be automatically loaded on boot, I don't know yet, how/whether it is possible to use some automatic loading/removing process with /etc/modules.conf
#David Thorarinsson explained me that all the 'set' lines should be after the compute ones,
#this is now fixed,
chip "it87-*"
# The values below have been tested on Asus CUSI, CUM motherboards.
# Voltage monitors as advised in the It8705 data sheet
label in0 "VCore"
label in1 "Vcc2.5V"
label in2 "+3.3V"
label in3 "+5V"
label in4 "+12V"
label in5 "-12V"
label in6 "-5V"
label in7 "SB 5V"
label in8 "V battery"
# vid not monitored by IT8705F
ignore vid
# For this family of chips the negative voltage equation is different from
# the lm78. The chip uses two external resistor for scaling but one is
# tied to a positive reference voltage. See ITE8705/12 datasheet (SIS950
# data sheet is wrong)
# Vs = (1 + Rin/Rf) * Vin - (Rin/Rf) * Vref.
# 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)
# The next two are negative voltages (-12 and -5).
# The following formulas must be used. Unfortunately the datasheet
# does not give recommendations for Rin, Rf, but we can back into
# them based on a nominal +2V input to the chip, together with a 4.096V Vref.
# Formula:
# actual V = (Vmeasured * (1 + Rin/Rf)) - (Vref * (Rin/Rf))
# For -12V input use Rin/Rf = 6.68
# For -5V input use Rin/Rf = 3.33
# Then you can convert the forumula to a standard form like:
compute in5 -(36/10)*@, -@/(36/10)
#(7.67 * @) - 27.36 , (@ + 27.36) / 7.67
compute in6 -(56/10)*@, -@/(56/10)
#(4.33 * @) - 13.64 , (@ + 13.64) / 4.33
compute in7 ((6.8/10)+1)*@ , @/((6.8/10)+1)
set in0_min 1.7 * 0.95
set in0_max 1.7 * 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
# 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
# Fans
label fan1"Processor's Fan"
set fan1_min 2000
ignore fan3
ignore fan2
#
# If you have a system fan, comment 'ignore fan2'
# and uncomment the following lines :
# Thanks to gro.reirual@erreip
#
# label fan2 "System Fan"
# set fan2_min 3000
# set fan2_div 4
# Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA)
CONFIG_ISA=y
# I2C support
CONFIG_I2C=m
CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=m
# I2C Hardware Bus support
CONFIG_I2C_ISA=m
# I2C Hardware Sensors Chip support
CONFIG_I2C_SENSOR=m
CONFIG_SENSORS_IT87=m
mount sysfs pseudo filesystem if you have not done it yet.
mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
See Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt and Documentation/i2c/sysfs-interface in the kernel sources tree
modprobe it87
modprobe i2c-isa Sensors can be accessed in the sysfs pseudo file system. But if you want you can use the lm_sensors user tools...
Install sensors user tools:
cd lm_sensors-2.8.3
copy this into a file named chips-it87.diff
NOTE: This patch is only required for old versions of lm_sensors, Paolo wrote:
"A reply from lm_sensors developers said that the next version of lm_sensors will fix this. It is already fixed in CVS."
--- lib/chips.c Sun Jan 25 00:13:49 2004
+++ ../lm_sensors-2.8.3.OK/lib/chips.c Sat Jan 24 01:23:43 2004
@@ -3757,13 +3757,13 @@
R, IT87_SYSCTL_TEMP2, VALUE(3), 1 },
{ SENSORS_IT87_TEMP3, "temp3", NOMAP, NOMAP,
R, IT87_SYSCTL_TEMP3, VALUE(3), 1 },
- { SENSORS_IT87_TEMP1_LOW, "temp1_hyst", SENSORS_IT87_TEMP1,
+ { SENSORS_IT87_TEMP1_LOW, "temp1_min", SENSORS_IT87_TEMP1,
SENSORS_IT87_TEMP1, RW,
IT87_SYSCTL_TEMP1, VALUE(2), 1 },
- { SENSORS_IT87_TEMP2_LOW, "temp2_hyst", SENSORS_IT87_TEMP2,
+ { SENSORS_IT87_TEMP2_LOW, "temp2_min", SENSORS_IT87_TEMP2,
SENSORS_IT87_TEMP2, RW,
IT87_SYSCTL_TEMP2, VALUE(2), 1 },
- { SENSORS_IT87_TEMP3_LOW, "temp3_hyst", SENSORS_IT87_TEMP3,
+ { SENSORS_IT87_TEMP3_LOW, "temp3_min", SENSORS_IT87_TEMP3,
SENSORS_IT87_TEMP3, RW,
IT87_SYSCTL_TEMP3, VALUE(2), 1 },
{ SENSORS_IT87_TEMP1_HIGH, "temp1_over", SENSORS_IT87_TEMP1,
apply the patch:
$ patch -p0<chips-it87.diff
$ make user
# make user_install
edit sensors.conf file it87 chip section (There is an example for more recent versions of lm_sensors in the following section)
This version was sent by Paolo BERVA for lm_sensors 2.8.3.
chip "it87-*" "it8705-*" "it8712-*"
# The values below have been tested on Asus CUSI, CUM motherboards.
# Voltage monitors as advised in the It8705 data sheet
label in0 "VCore 1"
label in1 "VCore 2"
label in2 "+3.3V"
label in3 "+5V"
label in4 "+12V"
label in5 "-12V"
label in6 "-5V"
label in7 "Stdby"
label in8 "VBat"
set in0_min 1.7 * 0.95
set in0_max 1.7 * 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_max -12 * 0.95
set in5_min -12 * 1.05
set in6_max -5 * 0.95
set in6_min -5 * 1.05
set in7_min 5 * 0.95
set in7_max 5 * 1.05
#the chip does not support in8 min/max
# vid is not monitored by IT8705F
# and is not supported by driver at this time
ignore vid
# If 3.3V reads 2X too high (Soyo Dragon and Asus A7V8X-X, for example),
# comment out following line.
# compute in2 2*@ , @/2
#
compute in3 ((6.8/10)+1)*@ , @/((6.8/10)+1)
compute in4 ((30/10) +1)*@ , @/((30/10) +1)
# For this family of chips the negative voltage equation is different from
# the lm78. The chip uses two external resistor for scaling but one is
# tied to a positive reference voltage. See ITE8705/12 datasheet (SIS950
# data sheet is wrong)
# Vs = (1 + Rin/Rf) * Vin - (Rin/Rf) * Vref.
# Vref = 4.096 volts, Vin is voltage measured, Vs is actual voltage.
# The next two are negative voltages (-12 and -5).
# The following formulas must be used. Unfortunately the datasheet
# does not give recommendations for Rin, Rf, but we can back into
# them based on a nominal +2V input to the chip, together with a 4.096V Vref.
# Formula:
# actual V = (Vmeasured * (1 + Rin/Rf)) - (Vref * (Rin/Rf))
# For -12V input use Rin/Rf = 6.68
# For -5V input use Rin/Rf = 3.33
# 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
#
# this much simpler version is reported to work for a
# Eltite Group K7S5A board
#
compute in5 -(34/10)*@, -@/(34/10)
compute in6 -(51/10)*@, -@/(51/10)
# compute in6 -(56/10)*@, -@/(56/10)
#
compute in7 ((6.8/10)+1)*@ , @/((6.8/10)+1)
# Temperature
#
# Important - if your temperature readings are completely whacky
# you probably need to change the sensor type.
# Adujst and uncomment the appropriate lines below.
# The old method (modprobe it87 temp_type=0xXX) is no longer supported.
#
# 2 = thermistor; 3 = thermal diode
# set sensor1 3
set sensor2 2
set sensor3 2
ignore temp1
label temp2 "M/B Temp"
set temp2_over 40
set temp2_min 20
label temp3 "CPU Temp"
set temp3_over 45
set temp3_min 25
# The A7V8X-X has temperatures inverted, and needs a conversion for
# CPU temp. Thanks to Preben Randhol for the formula.
# label temp1 "CPU Temp"
# label temp2 "M/B Temp"
# compute temp1 (-15.096+1.4893*@), (@+15.096)/1.4893
# The A7V600 also has temperatures inverted, and needs a different
# conversion for CPU temp. Thanks to Dariusz Jaszkowski for the formula.
# label temp1 "CPU Temp"
# label temp2 "M/B Temp"
# compute temp1 (@+128)/3, (3*@-128)
# Fans
label fan1 "CPU/Fan"
set fan1_div 2
set fan1_min 2000
label fan2 "Sys/Fan"
set fan2_div 4
set fan2_min 2000
ignore fan3
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 to /etc/modules
so it will autoload everytime you boot:
echo "sis900" >> /etc/modules
(or echo "alias eth0 sis900" >> /etc/modutils/aliases && update-modules for the module to be loaded when needed, go for that if you have a Debian system)
Pay attention to the double >, or you will have troubles :]
or compile it in your kernel, where you should say Y to SiS 900/7016 PCI
Fast Ethernet Adapter support in your kernel
configuration.
Yesterday (8/28/2003), I tried to boot with a Knoppix cd (3.2) and found out that the computer froze during the SCSI probes.
I encountered the same problem with a more recent version (3.3).
Here is a quick way to prevent this:
When you get the knoppix prompt, add noscsi and your lang settings and press enter:
boot: knoppix noscsi lang=fr
lang=fr is only to ensure that my language will be used even though I overrode the append line.
I recently found out several important hardware flaws on this mainboard. For example I could not get PLIP to work properly, if anyone has, let me know! I used a grey laplink parallel cable (also known as Null Printer Cable) a friend sold me and followed the PLIP Howto. I could watch activity on the pins using a dos tool, but nothing went through, it even gave a warning:
modprobe plip
tail /var/log/messages
kernel: plip: parport0 has no IRQ. Using IRQ-less mode,which is fairly inefficient!
kernel: NET3 PLIP version 2.4-parport pj.oc.irm@ebiing
kernel: plip0: Parallel port at 0x378, not using IRQ.
Karl said:
"I've found there is only one parallel port mode which actually assigns an IRQ in real life (the bios believes differently) I think its EPP but i could be wrong. I haven't used PLIP before but i thought that this may help a little."
I still get the same warning, let me know if it ever worked.
So I had to go on with floppies, since the box didn't have a cdrom drive, and there, I found out that the 486 had a much faster writing speed, more than 10 seconds of difference writing exactly the same image to the the same floppy...
Contribution of DR hab. Janusz S. Bien
> My computer returned from the service with the mainboard replaced. In
> principle this is still ECS K7S5A, but seems to have a different sound
> chip.
I have now (with kernel 2.4.27, see below):
Jan 31 10:51:47 galicja kernel: i810: SiS 7012 found at IO 0xd800 and 0xdc0=
0, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 11
[...]
Jan 31 10:51:47 galicja kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: CMI65 (CMedia)
Earlier it was
Nov 23 06:42:36 galicja kernel: i810: SiS 7012 found at IO 0xd800 and 0xdc0=
0, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 11
[...]
Nov 23 06:42:36 galicja kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALC38(Unk=
nown)
> The result is that with Knoppix of 2003-11-19-EN I have sound from
> xmms and xine, but there is no sound fom xawtv; actually I hear a kind
> of white noise.
> My HD installation - Woody with the kernel upgraded to 2.4.20 -
> behaves in an opposite way: I have sound from xawtv, but no sound from
> xmms and xine.
I just upgraded the kernel to 2.4.27 and situation is now worse: I
have no sound in xawtv, too.
If you have a similar situation, please have a look at the Alsa drivers.
Warning: If your board is working fine, then don't fix it. Anyway here are the cool links:
#Thanks to Art Wagner for this contribution (ten.ysaekaepsh@rengawa)
chip "it87-*" "it8705-*" "it8712-*"
# The values below have been tested on Asus CUSI, CUM motherboards.
# Voltage monitors as advised in the It8705 data sheet
label in0 "VCore"
label in1 "Vcc2.5v"
label in2 "Vcc3.3v"
label in3 "+5V"
label in4 "+12V"
label in5 "-12V"
label in6 "SB 2.5V"
label in7 "SB 5V"
label in8 "V battery"
# vid not monitored by IT8705F
ignore vid
# If 3.3V reads 2X too high (Soyo Dragon, for example),
# comment out following line.
# compute in2 2*@ , @/2
#
compute in3 ((6.8/10)+1)*@ , @/((6.8/10)+1)
compute in4 ((30/10) +1)*@ , @/((30/10) +1)
# For this family of chips the negative voltage equation is different from
# the lm78. The chip uses two external resistor for scaling but one is
# tied to a positive reference voltage. See ITE8705/12 datasheet (SIS950
# data sheet is wrong)
# Vs = (1 + Rin/Rf) * Vin - (Rin/Rf) * Vref.
# Vref = 4.096 volts, Vin is voltage measured, Vs is actual voltage.
# The next two are negative voltages (-12 and -5).
# The following formulas must be used. Unfortunately the datasheet
# does not give recommendations for Rin, Rf, but we can back into
# them based on a nominal +2V input to the chip, together with a 4.096V
Vref.
# Formula:
# actual V = (Vmeasured * (1 + Rin/Rf)) - (Vref * (Rin/Rf))
# For -12V input use Rin/Rf = 6.68
# For -5V input use Rin/Rf = 3.33
# 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
#
# this much simpler version is reported to work for a
# Eltite Group K7S5A board
#
compute in5 -(36/10)*@, -@/(36/10)
# compute in6 -(56/10)*@, -@/(56/10)
compute in6 (4.33*@) -13.64 , (@ +13.64) / 4.33
compute in7 ((6.8/10)+1)*@, @/((6.8/10)+1)
#
set in0_min 1.6 * 0.95
set in0_max 1.6 * 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 2.5 * 0.95
set in6_max 2.5 * 1.05
set in7_min 5 * 0.95
set in7_max 5 * 1.05
# Temperature
set in0_min 1.6 * 0.95
set in0_max 1.6 * 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 2.5 * 0.95
set in6_max 2.5 * 1.05
set in7_min 5 * 0.95
set in7_max 5 * 1.05
label temp3 "Processor"
set temp3_over 70
set temp3_hyst 25
label temp2 "Mainboard"
set temp2_over 70
set temp2_hyst 25
ignore temp1
# Fans
label fan1"Processor's Fan"
set fan1_min 1800
ignore fan3
ignore fan2
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! :-)
"Also i recommend you try using either the HoneyX bios or the CHEEPOman bios for the k7s5a instead of the official release, it gives you more control although some problems with non-atapi CD drives (my dvd goes crazy in linux with cheepoman)
The cheepoman bios also fixes several issues which ECS has still not attended to.
These bios roms are unsupported by ECS please bare that in mind, also they are meant for overclocking more than anything else, overclocking in such a way as you don't need a pencil ;)"
I was pretty surprised by the number of mails I received about this howto. Unfortunately I lost several contributions when my hard drive died but I'm always listening, so don't hesitate to mail us. - Seb
Here are most of the recent contributors, I hope everyone is here :]
David Thorarinsson es.emoh@ibbad
Karl Lattimer ofni.ccnn@lrak
DR HAB. Janusz S. Bien lp.ude.wumim.hcud@neibsj
Doug Jensen moc.tsewpsi@nejd