The ECS Elitegroup's K7S6A Mainboard HOWTO

written by Cedric LEULLIER <http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cedric.leullier/>

1. Introduction

• 1.1 This document
• 1.2 Versions
• 1.3 My Linux configuration

2. The IDE UltraDMA 100/66/33 controller

• 2.1 The southbridge of the SIS745 chipset
• 2.2 The sis5513 driver
• 2.3 Support in the 2.4.x kernel family
• 2.4 Kernel configuration

3. The USB controller

• 3.1 The USB OpenHCI
• 3.2 The usb-ohci driver
• 3.3 Kernel configuration
• 3.4 The Linux-USB site

4. The mainboard integrated soundcard

• 4.1 The SIS7012 chipset
• 4.2 The ALSA (snd-intel8x0) and the OSS (i810_audio) drivers
• 4.3 Installing the packages
• 4.4 Configuration files
• 4.5 Testing the soundcard

5. The mainboard's sensors

• 5.1 The IT8705F chipset
• 5.2 The I2C protocol and the SMBus
• 5.3 Installing the packages
• 5.4 Detecting the sensors driver
• 5.5 Configuring lm_sensors
• 5.6 Testing the sensors

6. Other

• 6.1 Links
• 6.2 Compiling the kernel