Great. Then everything is identified correctly and works fine. I'm not concerned with what lm78 does. it87 is recommended with a higher confidence. Thanks for the info. mds Aaron VanDevender wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 10:58, Mark D. Studebaker wrote: > > the to-be-written part is for the i2c bus driver, which you don't need > > for > > the it87 isa support. > > Did sensors-detect find the it87? > > Yes it (usually) finds the it87. It sometimes finds the following: > > Driver `lm78' (may not be inserted): > Misdetects: > * ISA bus address 0x0290 (Busdriver `i2c-isa') > Chip `National Semiconductor LM78' (confidence: 7) > > Driver `sis5595' (should be inserted): > Detects correctly: > * ISA bus, undetermined address (Busdriver `i2c-isa') > Chip `Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595' (confidence: 9) > > Driver `it87' (should be inserted): > Detects correctly: > * ISA bus address 0x0290 (Busdriver `i2c-isa') > Chip `ITE IT8705F / IT8712F / SiS 950' (confidence: 8) > > and sometimes it doesn't say anything about the lm87, and only detects > the sis5595 and the it87. Here's something weird though: > > # modprobe i2c-isa; modprobe it87 temp_type=0x1c > # sensors -s; sensors > [Good Sensor information] > # rmmod it87 > # modprobe lm78 > # sensors -s; sensors > [Bad sensor information (-67?C) ] > # rmmod lm78; modprobe lm78 > # sensors -s > No Sensors Found! > > The lm78 driver only works immedietly after the it87 driver is unloaded, > but unloading and reloading lm78 doesn't find anything. > > > What chip contains the hardware monitor? I looked at some SIS730 info > > on the web and couldn't find any reference to hardware monitor > > functions. > > The hardware monitor is on an SiS950/ITE8705 chip. The SiS950 is their > "super I/O" chip. I can't find out much about it though. SiS dosen't > seem to have it listed on their website. > > > > > sig wrote: > > > > > > I have an SiS730 sensor chip that I was able to get working using > > > lm_sensors-2.6.4, and I thought you guys might be interested in the > > > details. I used: > > > > > > modprobe i2c-isa > > > modprobe it87 temp_type=0x1c > > > sensors -s > > > sensors > > > > > > and I had to change some lines in /etc/sensors.conf. Under the it87 > > > section, I told it to ignore temp3, and I reversed the labels of temp1 > > > and temp2, so that temp1 is the CPU temp and temp2 is the System temp. > > > > > > When I try to probe I get something like > > > > > > Use driver `<To Be Written>' for device 00:00.0: Silicon Integrated > > > Systems SIS730 (To be written - Do not use 5595 drivers) > > > Use driver `i2c-sis5595' for device 00:01.0: Silicon Integrated Systems > > > SIS5595 > > > Probe succesfully concluded. > > > > > > We will now try to load each adapter module in turn. > > > Use of uninitialized value in string eq at > > > /usr/local/sbin/sensors-detect line 1000, <STDIN> line 1. > > > Use of uninitialized value in string eq at > > > /usr/local/sbin/sensors-detect line 1000, <STDIN> line 1. > > > > > > [snip...] > > > > > > but I just ignored all that and installed the modules as I said above, > > > and it works like a champ. > > > > > > The Motherboard is an ECS K7SEM. The specs say it has an SiS730S chipset > > > with an integrated SiS 950/ITE8705 hardware monitor. It would be nice if > > > this chip were to work out of the box, so if you need someone to test > > > something, just let me know. Please CC any replies to me since I'm not > > > on this list. > > > > > > cya > > > .sig > > > > > > > > > Name: signature.asc > > > signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature > > > Description: This is a digitally signed message part > > > > > Name: signature.asc > signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature > Description: This is a digitally signed message part
