Yeah, it looks like the chip is a ASUS ASIC. I wonder if we can get documentation for it? Phil On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:20:22AM -0400, Eric P. McCoy wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2002 13:40:22 -0700 you wrote: > > > Hi, nag away. :') > > Take a look at this (a link from the news on our home page): > > http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/lm_sensors2/prog/hotplug/README.p4b > > I'm fuzzy as to what this does, but you may want to get the latest CVS > > and follow the directions. > > According to the stuff I read about it, it reenables the, uh... i801 > sensors? The ones on the i845 chipset. ASUS disabled the sensors on > the PCI bus at the factory, so the above is a hack to get it working > again. You use some pciutils programs to tweak the bus and reenable the > sensor, then use the above driver to hot-plug the "new" device and make > the kernel detect it. Then the i801 driver from lm-sensors will work. > > The problem, of course, is that the i801 only has like one sensor. I've > tried it and it works, but I was hoping for fan speeds and voltages too. > Also I'm not really wild about PCI bus hacking (because I don't > understand it at all), even if it is just to reveal hidden devices. > > -- > 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
