Talk:HARDWARE Asus F3JC

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Adding webcam:

[edit] Webcam

Webcam works-for-me (Asus F3jc-ap103) so I guess for you will also :-) At first look for your webcam usbid:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0b05:1712 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c019 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05e1:0501 Syntek Semiconductor Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Homepage of syntek experimental driver is http://syntekdriver.sourceforge.net, and if your usbid of a webcam is different please consult there. Anyway, they already mention at last 174f:a311, 174f:a821 and 05E1:0501 usbids so if you got one this is your lucky day.

At first you need to compile in videodev in your kernel, preferably in module format:

Device drivers  --->
  Multimedia devices --->
     <M> Video For Linux
     [ ] Enable Video For Linux API 1 (DEPRECATED)
     [*]   Enable Video For Linux API 1 compatible Layer
         Video Capture Adapters  --->
         Radio Adapters  --->
         Digital Video Broadcasting Devices  --->
     < > DABUSB driver

Under Video Capture Adapters and DVB I have checked almost all available drivers but it is your personal choice and you may wish to do not include any of them. Compile as always.

If you already have it compiled, it is the time to insert it into running kernel:

# modprobe videodev

Then check svn repository using the following command (you need to have permissions to write below the directory you are in):

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

Dig into directory containing sources and compile it:

# cd syntekdriver/trunk/driver && make 

If you fail with: "ctags - command not found" please emerge dev-util/ctags and link as following:

# ln -s /usr/bin/exuberant-ctags /usr/bin/ctags

Issue make and prey... If you are ok, insert the module:

# modprobe.static stk11xx.ko

Now emerge camorama:

# emerge -av media-video/camorama

Assuming all went ok, you can now fire up four favourite console app in xwindow system and type:

$ camorama -D -R --width=640 --height=480

or:

$ camorama -D --width=640 --height=480

Enjoy! Please also consider reading docs from repository as I may have missed something important for you :-)

[edit] CD/DVD

I have a problem with this TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-L632D with firmware version AS05

when in kde, whatever is there any cd/dvd in the drive or not, after some time (1,3 hours), hald-addon-storage takes 70/90% of cpu usage. if i restart hald, or kill hald-addon-storage, the system returns available. it is very annoyng. if i start start k3b it says that DMA in turned off on /dev/hdc. if i try :

   hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc 

it replays

   HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

it is not possible to view a video dvd because of the transfer rate of the drive is very slow.

the kernel is 2.6.21gentoo-r2, hal -0.5.7.1-r5 anybody else have the same problem?

[edit] why is Wi-fi stated as 'works but not very good'?

It works-for-me very fine with net-wireless/ipw3945-1.2.0 and wireless-tools. The only problem is in wireless-tools, that do not support WPA.

If there are no other issues, I suggest changing that to Works (with wireless-tools).