it87 alarm handling was changed long ago in sensors 2.6.2. You have a 'sensors'/libsensors mismatch, one of them is very very old. Check /usr/lib for old libsensors files. This may or may not fix your temps too. Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get sensors running on an ECS P6SSTP-FN > motherboard (OK, I got them cheap :) The motherboard > uses a SiS 630 chipset and looking at the board I see a SiS950 > chip, which I gather is a it87 clone. > The sensors-detect script seems to have some trouble > since it keeps finding the sis5595 instead of the it87 > (well, the it87 has a lower confidence). > OK, no problem, so I load the it87 module. /etc/rc.d/rc.local > looks like: > > #----cut here---- > # I2C adapter drivers > modprobe i2c-isa > modprobe i2c-proc > modprobe i2c-dev > # I2C chip drivers > modprobe it87 > #----cut here---- > > and /etc/modules.conf looks like: > > #----cut here---- > # I2C module options > alias char-major-89 i2c-dev > #----cut here---- > > Then I run /usr/bin/sensors and the output looks like: > > it87-isa-0290 > Adapter: ISA adapter > Algorithm: ISA algorithm > ERROR: Can't get fan alarm data! > ERROR: Can't get vin alarm data! > ERROR: Can't get temp alarm data! > VCore 1: +1.96 V (min = +1.53 V, max = +1.87 V) > VCore 2: +2.46 V (min = +2.25 V, max = +2.75 V) > +3.3V: +6.80 V (min = +2.96 V, max = +3.60 V) > +5V: +5.07 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.48 V) > +12V: +12.28 V (min = +11.36 V, max = +13.80 V) > -12V: -24.41 V (min = -10.80 V, max = -13.10 V) > -5V: -5.99 V (min = -4.54 V, max = -5.43 V) > Stdby: +4.89 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.48 V) > in8: +3.34 V > fan1: 4753 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) > fan2: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) > Temp1/MB: -55?C (min = +20?C, max = +60?C) > Temp2/CPU: -125?C (min = +20?C, max = +60?C) > > > I would guess the temperatures are off by a bit. Does > anyone have any suggestions? > Oh, BTW, this is a RH 7.3 install and I'm running a > 2.4.21pre3 kernel with patches from JAM > (http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/) that > contain lm-sensors from the 2.7.0 cvs tree on 1/23/03. > I built the kernel and modules using gcc 3.2.2. I'm also > attaching a gzipped file containing the output from > sensors-detect (if it makes it past the email filters). > > TIA! > > Jeff > > >