Hi there,
I'm happy that lm_sensors 2.6.2 now is working fine, and I thought I
have to send you this report.
I've installed i2c-2.6.2 and lm_sensors-2.6.2 on my Slackware 8.0 (with
'vanilla' kernel 2.4.13) with 'option 1' for both.
When I first ran sensors-detect it detected the following devices:
Driver `adm1021' (should be inserted but causes problems):
Detects correctly:
* Bus `SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter)
Busdriver `i2c-viapro', I2C address 0x18
Chip `National Semiconductor LM84' (confidence: 6)
Misdetects:
* Bus `SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter)
Busdriver `i2c-viapro', I2C address 0x18
Chip `Maxim MAX1617' (confidence: 3)
Driver `lm80' (should be inserted):
Detects correctly:
* Bus `SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter)
Busdriver `i2c-viapro', I2C address 0x2d
Chip `National Semiconductor LM80' (confidence: 3)
Driver `eeprom' (should be inserted):
Detects correctly:
* Bus `SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter)
Busdriver `i2c-viapro', I2C address 0x50
Chip `Serial EEPROM (PC-100 DIMM)' (confidence: 8)
* Bus `SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter)
Busdriver `i2c-viapro', I2C address 0x51
Chip `Serial EEPROM (PC-100 DIMM)' (confidence: 8)
So it suggested me the following entries in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules:
# I2C adapter drivers
modprobe i2c-viapro
# I2C chip drivers
modprobe adm1021
modprobe lm80
modprobe eeprom
Well, during the scanning it also found another device, i2c-philips-par
, which I don't know anything about...
The problem was that doing as indicated by sensors-detect lent to
unmeaningful results when running 'sensors'.
In fact I have an Abit KT7A motherboard, which is equipped with a KT133A
chipset (VIA VT8363A and VT82C686B), and after reading all your
documentation, FAQ, etc. etc. I understood I'd better not to follow
sensors-detect's indications. So I modified my /etc/rc.d/rc.modules as
follows:
# I2C adapter drivers
/sbin/modprobe i2c-isa
/sbin/modprobe i2c-viapro
# I2C chip drivers
/sbin/modprobe via686a
/sbin/modprobe ddcmon
/sbin/modprobe eeprom
and /etc/modules.conf as follows:
# I2C module options
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
post-install i2c-dev /usr/local/bin/sensors -s
And everything is now working ok. I know this should be something very
obvious to someone who really has understood how lm_sensor and the I2C
hardware works, but I really knew nothing before reading all your
documentation (yes, that's why you wrote it!! :-)). Thanks for it!
Then I've made some tweaking, in order to have all the readings aligned
to what the bios (and the VIA utility under Windows) reports, and here
is the result (/etc/sensor.conf):
chip "via686a-*"
label "2.0V" "Vcore" # The same labels as my motherboard's bios
label "2.5V" "+2.5V"
ignore "2.5V"
# label "3.3V"
label "5.0V" "5V"
label "12V" "12V"
label fan1 "CPU Fan"
label fan2 "PWR Fan"
label temp1 "SYS Temp"
label temp2 "CPU Temp"
label temp3 "SBr Temp"
ignore temp3
set in0_min 1.6 # This because I have an Athlon Thunderbird,
running with 1.75 V core.
set in0_max 2.0 #
compute "2.0V" 1.04*@ , @/1.04 # Vcore
compute "3.3V" 1.02*@ <mailto:1.02*@%C2%A0> , @/1.02 # 3.3V
compute "5.0V" 1.027*@ <mailto:1.027*@%C2%A0> , @/1.027 # 5V
compute "12V" 1.027*@ , @/1.027 # 12V
compute "fan1" @/1.03 , 1.03*@
<mailto:1.03*@%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0> # CPU Fan
compute "fan2" @/1.03 , 1.03*@
<mailto:1.03*@%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0> # PWR Fan
compute "temp1" @/1.064 , 1.064*@
<mailto:1.064*@%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0> # SYS Temp
compute "temp2" @/1.05 , 1.05*@
<mailto:1.05*@%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0> # CPU Temp
Well, I think the 'compute' lines are what could be interesting to other
Abit KT7A owners, that's also why I'm sending you this e-mail. Please
let me know if you perhaps need some other detail.
That's all, I want to thank you for the valuable job you are doing with
the lm_sensors project, and I hope this e-mail could be of some interest
to you.
Kind regards.
Riccardo Tritto - hamradio at quipo.it <mailto:hamradio at quipo.it>
