rats. No idea what it could be then. Could you verify what chip it actually is (look at your board). Also send us the output (after you load i2c-piix4 but NOT w83781d) of prog/dump/i2cdump x y, where x is probably 0 and y is probably 0x2d. Also the output of sensors-detect. thanks mds "John K. Lash" wrote: > > Reply from support: > > Get CVS release of lm_sensors and > use ?modprobe w83781d init=0? which should prevent the hangs. > Let us know if it doesn?t at > sensors at stimpy.netroedge.com. > MDS 11/8/01 > > ------------------------ > > Still no luck. I grabbed sensors2 and i2c as described in download.html page. > > I generated a patch file: > > mkpatch/mkpatch.pl . /usr/src/linux > /tmp/pat > cd /usr/src/linux > patch -p1 < /tmp/pat > > I didn't see any new settings in the make xconfig section. > > Then I ran > make dep && make clean && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install > > Then I went back to the i2c directory and ran > make > make install > > then went to sensors2 > > make > make install > > Pushed new kernel and modules to my test system, rebooted and ran > > modprobe w83781d init=0 > modprobe i2c-piix4 > > and it hung. on the next boot I tried the modprobes in the reverse order and it hung after the > second modprobe. > > This kernel has mods for reiserfs and kernel crash dump in it (should have mentioned that > originally). They haven't given me trouble in the past but I can build against a clean 2.2.19 if > that would be helpful. > > I'm including the patch file (can't think of anything else useful to do ;-) > > --john > > -- > John Lash jkl at sarvega.com 630-734-5925 > > Sarvega Inc. > 745 McClintock, Suite 230 > Burr Ridge, IL 60527 > >