ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012

ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012

[John Fremlin]

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> > The only problems I have seen with this board are that I can't find
> > drivers for the sound (no big loss), lmsensors does not seem to be able
> 
> [ALSA has one I believe]

I couldn't see one. Do you know what name it would have or where I can
get the datasheet for it?

The ECS K75S5A motherboard is built around a SiS735 chipset with
integrated sound, called a SiS7012 by SiS. According to
http://www.sis.com/support/driver/audio.htm one MS-Windows driver
covers the chipsets SiS635, SiS735, SiS633, and SiS733.

There allegedly exist non-free Linux drivers from OSS called the
SiS7012. 

The PCI dump for the sound part is

/proc/pci:
  Bus  0, device   2, function  7:
    Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 160).
      IRQ 11.
      Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=52.Max Lat=11.
      I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdcff].
      I/O at 0xd800 [0xd83f].


/sbin/lspci  -v:
00:02.7 Class 0401: 1039:7012 (rev a0)
        Subsystem: 1019:0a14
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
        I/O ports at d800 [size=64]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

[...]

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Re: ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012

[John Fremlin]

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

[...]

> > The ECS K75S5A motherboard is built around a SiS735 chipset with
> > integrated sound, called a SiS7012 by SiS. According to
> > http://www.sis.com/support/driver/audio.htm one MS-Windows driver
> > covers the chipsets SiS635, SiS735, SiS633, and SiS733.
> > 
> > There allegedly exist non-free Linux drivers from OSS called the
> > SiS7012. 
> 
> I guess someone who wants the driver needs to talk to SiS about
> datasheets

Who to talk to at SiS? They have a dubious web interface for sales and
marketing requests that I used, but I'd prefer to email someone who
knows what a datasheet actually is ;-)

Alsa doesn't advertise any contact with SiS at all :-(
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Re: ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012

[Alan Cox]

> > [ALSA has one I believe]
> 
> I couldn't see one. Do you know what name it would have or where I can
> get the datasheet for it?

Apparently I was misinformed.

> The ECS K75S5A motherboard is built around a SiS735 chipset with
> integrated sound, called a SiS7012 by SiS. According to
> http://www.sis.com/support/driver/audio.htm one MS-Windows driver
> covers the chipsets SiS635, SiS735, SiS633, and SiS733.
> 
> There allegedly exist non-free Linux drivers from OSS called the
> SiS7012. 

I guess someone who wants the driver needs to talk to SiS about datasheets

Re: ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012

[Dan Hollis]

On 2 Nov 2001, John Fremlin wrote:
> Who to talk to at SiS? They have a dubious web interface for sales and
> marketing requests that I used, but I'd prefer to email someone who
> knows what a datasheet actually is ;-)
> Alsa doesn't advertise any contact with SiS at all :-(

I've already talked with SiS. They are insisting that they will write the
drivers themselves, they dont want to release datasheets to anyone. The
reply I got (Thu, 25 Oct 2001) they said they are working on OSS drivers
in-house, and ALSA drivers are next.

Of course, who knows when they'll be released.

-Dan
-- 
[-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]

Re: ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012

[Alan Cox]

> I've already talked with SiS. They are insisting that they will write the
> drivers themselves, they dont want to release datasheets to anyone. The
> reply I got (Thu, 25 Oct 2001) they said they are working on OSS drivers
> in-house, and ALSA drivers are next.

I guess in the mean time SIS board are best avoided. Who knows if they'll
ever actually deliver

Re: ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012

[Alan Cox]

> > I guess in the mean time SIS board are best avoided. Who knows if they'll
> > ever actually deliver
> 
> Why suggesting to avoid this board that looks pretty fast, stable and is
> very cheap? A reasonable and low cost Sound board will fit and will give
> far better sound quality for less CPU load.

because so many people have bought things on the promise of vendor support
that never appeared or was at best minimal

> Btw, I just purchased a CMEDIA 8738 based sound board for less than 20
> euros (119 FF to be precise).

Nice cards

Re: ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012

[Andi Kleen]

Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net> writes:

> On 2 Nov 2001, John Fremlin wrote:
> > Who to talk to at SiS? They have a dubious web interface for sales and
> > marketing requests that I used, but I'd prefer to email someone who
> > knows what a datasheet actually is ;-)
> > Alsa doesn't advertise any contact with SiS at all :-(
> 
> I've already talked with SiS. They are insisting that they will write the
> drivers themselves, they dont want to release datasheets to anyone. The
> reply I got (Thu, 25 Oct 2001) they said they are working on OSS drivers
> in-house, and ALSA drivers are next.

ALSA drivers seem to work. A standard SuSE 7.2 install with yast2 alsa installer
had no problems with producing sound on a k7s5a.

The sound quality is somewhat poor however; but even with another sound card
this board is cheaper than the alternativesa and works very fast. 

-Andi (happy user of a k7s5a with a sblive) 

Re: ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012

[Alan Cox]

> ALSA drivers seem to work. A standard SuSE 7.2 install with yast2 alsa installer
> had no problems with producing sound on a k7s5a.
> 
> The sound quality is somewhat poor however; but even with another sound card
> this board is cheaper than the alternativesa and works very fast. 

What driver does it install ? - Soundblaster 8bit ?