2.6.0 has the Thinkpad/IBM hardware detect stuff and it's been confirmed by our IBM person, right? Phil On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Jim Harvey wrote: > Philip Edelbrock wrote: > > > > FYI- The chip used in the particular laptops had a faulty state machine > > for interpreting I2C bus commands. Under certain circumstances, the > > chip would interpret commands meant for other chips as a command for > > it's self to write data to it's memory. IBM doesn't use the chip any > > more (the AT24RF08, if I remember correctly), but it's still a problem > > with old hardware. :'( > > > > Newer distros should begin to carry newer versions of lm-sensors which > > detects for potentially vulnerable IBM hardware and disable it's self.> > > Phil > > > > James Mckenzie wrote: > > > >> Andrey: > >> > >> The problem with lm sensors is that it attempts to read the BIOS EPROM > >> and messes it up. > > Do you know what version of lm-sensors has that fix, and has it been verified > that it in fact, works? I'm using RH 8.0 here. I tried to uninstall the > lm-sensors rpm per a previous post's suggestion and it failed due to a KDE > dependancy. > -- > After Armageddon, there will be only three things left: Kudzu vines creeping > over the ruins, Cockroaches feasting on the blackened ashes, and somewhere > an IBM PC saying "Abort, Retry, Ignore -- Abort, Retry, Ignore -- Abort... " > Jim Harvey - WB8NBS/9 - Naperville, Illinois - Linux on a Thinkpad 770Z > > -- > The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad >
