I'm suspecting that the wrong chip driver is being used. Operation (beeping) isn't correct, you are forcing the use of the module w/ options, and readings are whacked. Can you confirm the chip on your mobo by physically looking? Phil On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 04:37:13PM -0400, Eric P. McCoy wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to get the sensors to work correctly on my ASUS P4B266-C > motherboard. I have read all the relevant information on the lm-sensors > web site, in particular the tweaks I need to make on the PCI bus and so > on. Plus the option I need to pass to the w83781d module to get it to > recognize my chip. > > So anyway, all that works mostly fine and produces useful output on the > temperature and so on. The problem here is that it also enables the > goddamn beep-alarm and I _cannot_ get it to shut off without rebooting. > It comes on the second I load the module and will not go off, even if I > unload the module. I suspect the alarm is coming on because temp3 is > out of range, but that's because it isn't connected to anything - it > just displays 127C. I edited sensors.conf to tell it to ignore temp3, > and that doesn't work: it omits display of that sensor, but doesn't stop > the beeping. I turned off "beep_enable" and now sensors doesn't say > it's on any more, but that doesn't stop the beeping either. > > The fan display is broken, and the fix detailed in the problem ticket > doesn't solve it, but I suspect that's a BIOS issue: according to ASUS, > versions 1001 and 1002 of this board's BIOS don't report the fan > correctly. That may just be the BIOS display, though; I'm mentioning it > just in case it's relevant. In any event, the only thing that displays > an "alarm" message is temp3. > > I would unplug the speaker from the motherboard, but the beeping would > actually be a really useful feature if it worked correctly. So I'd > rather get the problem fixed. > > So is there anything I can do? Or is this the limit of the > functionality I can expect for the time being? I really would like > lm-sensors to work, because I hope to overclock this CPU and need to > watch the temperature to keep from overclocking it too far. (It's not > overclocked ATM.) > > Thanks, and kudos on the great work you've already done: everything > works flawlessly on my other two systems. > > -- > Eric McCoy (reverse "ten.xoc at mpe", mail to "ctr2sprt" is filtered) > > "Last I checked, it wasn't the power cord for the Clue Generator that > was sticking up your ass." - John Novak, rasfwrj -- 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
