topher

anyone write a comprehensive guide yet?

bunnywinkles

hi i saw you guys are trying to get the t1620 running xp. i believe i have most to all of the drivers and i am going to be trying them tomorrow to see how it all works. if it works and i have them all i will type up a guide on how to install and i will host a .rar file of the drivers, thought i would let you know. (not doing it till tom. because dont have an ex. hdd yet, and waiting to use Ghost, which is avalible to me at school) dont worry the guide will be written better then this.

topher

thank you

bunnywinkles

np, i have typed up the guide and still working on it, the files are uploading, (i dont have my own server and am using free hosting site so any bandwidth anyone could donate would be greatly appriciated) the files should be up tomorrow, im on 768/128 so its taking a good amount of time. the guide is on version .11 im uploading files with version .1 so ill upload the updated guide too. you guys are lucky i dont have too much of a life and got bored, haha.

bunnywinkles

>.< ok so im getting alot of it, the guide isnt that good write it think its right then its not, on my third revision. im still trying to figure out how to install audio, i havee everything else for the most part

topher

nice. what software does your guide require? maybe i can prep myself. you used ghost?

Resolver1

This http://support.gateway.com/support/d...&uid=183438670 worked for me. The guy on the previous page gave us the link.

bunnywinkles

ok so ive found out how to do it! now just to remember! i have everything working

Audio:

Download this: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/...e=post&id=2389

then this: http://files.aoaforums.com/F3185-HDMI_R168.exe

and finally this: http://support.gateway.com/support/d...%205.10.5185.0


Video: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca.../integrated-xp

those drivers work (technically it is a X1200 series so they should! lol)

The three unknowns are just the ATI SMBus

webcam installs with the drivers for vista from gateway...

usb hub works with the standard drivers

im assuming youve figured out the networking

if im forgeting something just ask ill be happy to tell

Diabase

I've been working on a lot of other things so haven't had a chance to try again to rebuild XP from scratch again now that I've got drivers to make sure that I have a good overall installation process. While my XP device manager on my gateway t1620 is clear of errors, and all hardware seems to be working correctly, I know there there are some incorrect device driver entries in my registry resulting from experimentation with forced installation of drivers before finding the right ones. Yesterday I had a problem with installing software for a portable voice recorder and I believe, (at least hope,) that it is just due to some of these bogus registry entries. I have also found that the touch pad fails after hibernation requiring me to reboot using keyboard shortcuts to restore functionality, so I will be trying to correct this issue within the new installation process.

When I was first installing drivers the very first driver I looked for was to get Ethernet up and running so that I could use Windows Update. It is my understanding that it is a better practice to first install system drivers so that peripheral driver installers have accurate information about the rest of the system. This is just my uneducated view based upon building workstations on older Windows and DOS systems every few years over the past 15 years. I would appreciate hearing anyone who has a better understanding based on either more frequent experiences with complete installations, or more intimate experience with contemporary device driver installation processes.

While working on this I am also working on finding drivers for Ubuntu (Linux)
I have posted my discoveries of which devices are functional in Ubuntu 7.10 on the Ubuntu laptop support forum. So far it seems that only the Ethernet card and video card have good working drivers available in Ubuntu. The keyboard is functional, but the touch pad fails from time to time. USB works. The sound card doesn't work at all yet in Ubuntu 7.10. Unlike Windows, Ubuntu is developed free of charge by the individuals around the world. I am hoping that by posting my findings on the Ubuntu laptop website that the devices that make up gateway t1620 will be included in the next release of Ubuntu, or others more experienced in this sort of thing will find solutions for the rest of us newer to Linux.

Resolver1

You tried but ultimately failed. All of those links except one don't work, fix them.
Here is a comprehensive guide I made for some of the stuff:

1.Audio- http://support.gateway.com/support/d...&uid=183438670 Click on the link and then press "Download Now" (it's in red). It's a zip file so it will extract all the stuff into C:\cabs\D00758-001-001 and in that folder just click on Setup.exe
2. Video- For video you can use Omega Drivers http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=F...&dwn_cat_id=14 click on Radeon Omega Driver 4.8.442 It's an executable so just follow the stuff on screen. The drivers from Dell wouldn't install, but if you do it manually they work.
3. Network Ethernet- http://www.softwarepatch.com/utiliti...k-rtl8100.html it's an executable I believe;
4. Camera- http://support.gateway.com/support/d...&uid=183748963 it installs the same way as Audio drivers.
5. Wireless- http://www.opendrivers.com/freedownl...-download.html zipped up folder with setup.exe inside.

I'll work on the rest, I'm having issues extracting cab files though.