Debian Etch ASUS Z53JC/F3JC

Here I’m gonna explain how I installed Debian Etch in my laptop some time ago.

Asus Z53 – JC / F3 JC

Processor: Core2Duo T5500 @ 1,66 Ghz (Without virtualization)

Memory: 2 GB of RAM DDR2.

Video Card: NVIDIA 7300 Go 128MB with TurboCache.

NIC: RTL8111/8168B e ipw3945.

Sound Card: ALC 861

Disco duro: 100GB (SATA)

WebCam: Syntek Semiconductor 1,3 Megapixels.

CardReader: Ricoh MMC/SD/MS.

Output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 110M / GeForce Go 7300 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
06:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832
06:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
06:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
06:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)

Output of lsusb:

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 05e1:0501 Syntek Semiconductor Co., Ltd
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Devices that works

All devices should work. With appropiated driver of ALSA, the sound card will work without issues. Maybe you have problems with the driver of the webcam.

Hardware Components	Status	Notes
Intel Core2Duo T5500 @ 1,66 GHz	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
15.4″ WXGA, 1280×800 TFT Display	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
NVIDIA Geforce 7300 512MB(With TurboCache but 128MB are real)	Works	Download NVIDIA Linux driver
RTL8111/8168B – Integrated Network Card	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Internal 56k Modem	Not used
Intel IPW3945	Works	Download driver and daemon (APT+ModuleAssistant)
HDA-Intel	Works	Just install latest ALSA drivers (1.0.14RC3)
WebCam Syntek	Works	Download driver, compile it and pray or wait
Firewire	Not used

How to:

• NICs:

With kernel 2.6.18-4-amd64, the LAN card works by default. The wireless card needs some modules but is gonna be easy with “module assistant”.

1. sudo apt-get install module-assistant
2. sudo m-a a-i ipw3945
3. sudo apt-get install firmware-ipw3945 ipw3945d ipw3945-modules-$(uname -r)

Now, we have both installed.

• Video card:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

(Also, you could download NVIDIA driver from official Webpage but you will need to download some dependencies pkg-config y xorg-dev using APT and adding “non-free” in every repository located at /etc/apt/sources.list)

• Soundcard:

You only have to download latest ALSA drivers:
sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils

If you wanna compile ALSA go to here. Also if you have problems after downloading latest ALSA drivers.

• Cardreader:

With the kernel 2.6.18-4-amd64 I have to do nothing. You only have to mount the card in /media/whereyouwannamountthecard. We can use automount for that too.

• WebCam:

We have to make a decision: compile source using subversion or downloading a tar file (more easier)

Tar metod

We must download the tar file from here, untar (tar xfvz name.of.file) and:

1. make clean
2. make
3. sudo modprobe videodev
4. sudo insmod stk11xx.ko

Now we have the module compiled and loaded in Kernel. So, we only need to run a Webcam based application like Camorama, Kopete, etc.Using subversion:

Firstly we have to install “subversion”:

sudo apt-get install subversion

Now we can download the module of the WebCam

svn co https://syntekdriver.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/syntekdriver syntekdriver

When it ends, there’s a folder called “syntekdriver” and inside of it, other folder called “trunk”. There we have to compile the module, example : “cd syntekdriver/trunk”.

1. make
2. sudo make install
3. make clean && make
4. sudo modeprobe videodev
5. sudo insmod stk11xx.ko [hflip=0/1] [vflip=0/1] [fps=10-30] (Ejemplo: sudo insmod stk11xx.ko hflip=0 vflip=1 fps=30)

We can modificate that values editing /sys/class/video4linux/video0. For example, if we wanna change the value of vflip to 1 and the brightness to 3000 : cat vflip
sudo echo 0 > vflip
cat brightness
sudo echo 3000 > brightness

That’s all.

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