If the chips are power cycling, then it's probably going to be difficult to fix that somehow, unless the Bios can let you override that. A more realistic solution is to use a 'wake up' script which resets your limits for you each time the computer is woken up (taken off suspend). Phil On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 08:38:20AM +0100, Marcus Eger wrote: > I know, it's a 440BX board, but which sensoring chips...!? > I'll have a look the next time I open the case. > BTW, the bios does not seem to work well on its own. On win98 > (and also linux without sensors) the cpu fan does not stop once ever > started. However, it starts correctly when the temperature seems to be high > enough. > > Is there a possibilty to override the bios? (reset alarms?!) Or to control > the fan directly -- I ask because the noise generated by the fan is terrible. > > To Phil: > Yes, I get the effect you describe. Is there a possibility to suppress > this power cycling of the chips? I don't have a clue. > > Marcus > > > On Saturday 29 December 2001 00:26, Mark D. Studebaker wrote: > > You may not really have a LM80 or MAX1617, > > those chips are often misdetected. > > I'd tell you to look at your board but you said > > it's a laptop so that's harder... > > mds > > > > phil at netroedge.com wrote: > > > Boy, that is odd. It's like the Bios or something else is trying to > > > set the limits as well. Or perhaps the chip is power-cycled during > > > the event, which causes it to reset to defaults? Or, another idea is > > > that your distibution has a daemon or something running which might be > > > setting values? I'm at a loss. :'( > > > > > > At the end you note that a sensors -s only partially fixes the > > > situation. What if you remove the module, re-insmod it, and then do a > > > 'sensors -s'. Does it return to the state that you show after the > > > first 'sensors -s'? If so, then it's likely that the chip is > > > power-cycled during a suspend which loses it's config/limits settings. > > > Removing the driver and reinstalling it causes it to be reinitialized. > > > > > > Phil > > > > -- Philip Edelbrock -- IS Manager -- Edge Design, Corvallis, OR phil at netroedge.com -- http://www.netroedge.com/~phil PGP F16: 01 D2 FD 01 B5 46 F4 F0 3A 8B 9D 7E 14 7F FB 7A
