I own a ABIT NV7m motherboard with a AMD ATHLON CPU, based on the nVIDIA nForce 420D chipset. The built-in chip appears to be a Winbond W83627HF, which is normally supported by lm-sensors. But when I do sensors-detect (as root), here is what I get: This program will help you to determine which I2C/SMBus modules you need to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. You need to have done a `make install', issued a `depmod -a' and made sure `/etc/conf.modules' (or `/etc/modules.conf') contains the appropriate module path before you can use some functions of this utility. Read doc/modules for more information. Also, you need to be `root', or at least have access to the /dev/i2c[-/]* files for some things. You can use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create these /dev files if you do not have them already. If you have patched your kernel and have some drivers built-in you can safely answer NO if asked to load some modules. In this case, things may seem a bit confusing, but they will still work. BIOS vendor (ACPI): Nvidia We can start with probing for (PCI) I2C or SMBus adapters. You do not need any special privileges for this. Do you want to probe now? (YES/no): Probing for PCI bus adapters... Use driver `i2c-amd756' for device 00:01.1: nVidia nForce SMBus Probe succesfully concluded. We will now try to load each adapter module in turn. Module `i2c-amd756' already loaded. Do you now want to be prompted for non-detectable adapters? (yes/NO): yes Load `i2c-elektor' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.11mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-elektor.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including inva lid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.11mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-elektor.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod i2c-elektor failed Loading failed... skipping. Load `i2c-elv' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.11mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-elv.o.gz: init_module: No suc h device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including inva lid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.11mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-elv.o.gz fai led modprobe: insmod i2c-elv failed Loading failed... skipping. Load `i2c-philips-par' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): Module loaded succesfully. Load `i2c-velleman' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.11mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-velleman.o.gz: init_module: N o such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including inva lid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.11mdk/kernel/drivers/i2c/i2c-velleman.o.g z failed modprobe: insmod i2c-velleman failed Loading failed... skipping. To continue, we need module `i2c-dev' to be loaded. If it is built-in into your kernel, you can safely skip this. i2c-dev is not loaded. Do you want to load it now? (YES/no): Module loaded succesfully. We are now going to do the adapter probings. Some adapters may hang halfway through; we can't really help that. Also, some chips will be double detected; we choose the one with the highest confidence value in that case. If you found that the adapter hung after probing a certain address, you can specify that address to remain unprobed. That often includes address 0x69 (clock chip). Next adapter: bt848 #0 (Bit-shift algorithm) Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): no Next adapter: SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00 (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): Client found at address 0x00 Client found at address 0x01 Client found at address 0x02 Client found at address 0x03 Client found at address 0x04 Client found at address 0x05 Client found at address 0x06 Client found at address 0x07 Client found at address 0x08 Client found at address 0x09 Client found at address 0x0a Client found at address 0x0b Probing for `Smart Battery'... Failed! Client found at address 0x0c Client found at address 0x0d Client found at address 0x0e Client found at address 0x0f Client found at address 0x10 Client found at address 0x11 Client found at address 0x12 Client found at address 0x13 Client found at address 0x14 Client found at address 0x15 Client found at address 0x16 Client found at address 0x17 Client at address 0x18 can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x19 can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x1a can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client found at address 0x1b Client found at address 0x1c Client found at address 0x1d Client found at address 0x1e Client found at address 0x1f Client at address 0x20 can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x21 can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x22 can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x23 can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x24 can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x25 can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x26 can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x27 can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x28 can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x29 can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x2a can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x2b can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x2c can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x2d can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client found at address 0x2e Probing for `Myson MTP008'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM80'... Success! (confidence 3, driver `lm80') Probing for `National Semiconductor LM85'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM87'... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83781D'... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83782D'... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83783S'... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83627HF'... Failed! Probing for `Asus AS99127F'... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83L784R/AR'... Failed! Probing for `Analog Devices ADM9240'... Failed! Probing for `Dallas Semiconductor DS1780'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM81'... Failed! Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1025'... Failed! Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1024'... Failed! Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1022'... Failed! Probing for `Texas Instruments THMC50'... Failed! Probing for `ITE IT8705F / IT8712F / SiS 950'... Failed! Client found at address 0x2f Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM80'... Success! (confidence 3, driver `lm80') Probing for `Winbond W83781D'... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83782D'... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83783S'... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83627HF'... Failed! Probing for `Asus AS99127F'... Failed! Probing for `Winbond W83L784R/AR'... Failed! Probing for `Analog Devices ADM9240'... Failed! Probing for `Dallas Semiconductor DS1780'... Failed! Probing for `National Semiconductor LM81'... Failed! Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1022'... Failed! Probing for `Texas Instruments THMC50'... Failed! Probing for `ITE IT8705F / IT8712F / SiS 950'... Failed! Client found at address 0x30 Client found at address 0x31 Client found at address 0x32 Client found at address 0x33 Client found at address 0x34 Client found at address 0x35 Client found at address 0x36 Client found at address 0x37 Client found at address 0x38 Client found at address 0x39 Client found at address 0x3a Client found at address 0x3b Client found at address 0x3c Client found at address 0x3d Client found at address 0x3e Client found at address 0x3f Client found at address 0x40 Client found at address 0x41 Client found at address 0x42 Client found at address 0x43 Client found at address 0x44 Client found at address 0x45 Client found at address 0x46 Client found at address 0x47 Client found at address 0x48 Probing for `National Semiconductor LM75'... Success! (confidence 3, driver `lm75') Probing for `Dallas Semiconductor DS1621'... Failed! Probing for `Philips Semiconductors PCF8591'... Success! (confidence 1, driver `pcf8591') Client found at address 0x49 Probing for `National Semiconductor LM75'... Success! (confidence 3, driver `lm75') Probing for `Dallas Semiconductor DS1621'... Failed! Probing for `Philips Semiconductors PCF8591'... Success! (confidence 1, driver `pcf8591') Client found at address 0x4a Probing for `National Semiconductor LM75'... Success! (confidence 3, driver `lm75') Probing for `Dallas Semiconductor DS1621'... Failed! Probing for `Philips Semiconductors PCF8591'... Success! (confidence 1, driver `pcf8591') Client found at address 0x4b Probing for `National Semiconductor LM75'... Success! (confidence 3, driver `lm75') Probing for `Dallas Semiconductor DS1621'... Failed! Probing for `Philips Semiconductors PCF8591'... Success! (confidence 1, driver `pcf8591') Client at address 0x4c can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x4d can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client at address 0x4e can not be probed - unload all client drivers first! Client found at address 0x4f Probing for `National Semiconductor LM75'... Success! (confidence 3, driver `lm75') Probing for `Dallas Semiconductor DS1621'... Failed! Probing for `Philips Semiconductors PCF8591'... Success! (confidence 1, driver `pcf8591') Client found at address 0x50 Probing for `Serial EEPROM'... Success! (confidence 8, driver `eeprom') Probing for `DDC monitor'... Failed! Client found at address 0x51 Probing for `Serial EEPROM'... Success! (confidence 8, driver `eeprom') Client found at address 0x52 Probing for `Serial EEPROM'... Success! (confidence 8, driver `eeprom') Client found at address 0x53 Probing for `Serial EEPROM'... Success! (confidence 8, driver `eeprom') Client found at address 0x54 Probing for `Serial EEPROM'... Success! (confidence 8, driver `eeprom') Client found at address 0x55 Probing for `Serial EEPROM'... Success! (confidence 8, driver `eeprom') Client found at address 0x56 Probing for `Serial EEPROM'... Success! (confidence 8, driver `eeprom') Client found at address 0x57 Probing for `Serial EEPROM'... Success! (confidence 8, driver `eeprom') Client found at address 0x58 Probing for `LTC1710'... Success! (confidence 1, driver `ltc1710') Client found at address 0x59 Probing for `LTC1710'... Success! (confidence 1, driver `ltc1710') Client found at address 0x5a Probing for `LTC1710'... Success! (confidence 1, driver `ltc1710') Client found at address 0x5b Client found at address 0x5c Client found at address 0x5d Client found at address 0x5e Client found at address 0x5f Client found at address 0x60 Client found at address 0x61 Probing for `SMBus 2.0 ARP-Capable Device'... Success! (confidence 1, driver `smbus-arp') Client found at address 0x62 Client found at address 0x63 Client found at address 0x64 Client found at address 0x65 Client found at address 0x66 Client found at address 0x67 Client found at address 0x68 Client found at address 0x69 Client found at address 0x6a Client found at address 0x6b Client found at address 0x6c Client found at address 0x6d Client found at address 0x6e Client found at address 0x6f Client found at address 0x70 Client found at address 0x71 Client found at address 0x72 Client found at address 0x73 Probing for `FSC poseidon chip'... Failed! Probing for `FSC Scylla chip'... Failed! Client found at address 0x74 Client found at address 0x75 Client found at address 0x76 Client found at address 0x77 Client found at address 0x78 Client found at address 0x79 Client found at address 0x7a Client found at address 0x7b Client found at address 0x7c Client found at address 0x7d Client found at address 0x7e Client found at address 0x7f Some chips are also accessible through the ISA bus. ISA probes are typically a bit more dangerous, as we have to write to I/O ports to do this. Do you want to scan the ISA bus? (YES/no): no Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. Just press ENTER to continue: Driver `lm80' (should be inserted): Detects correctly: * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x2e Chip `National Semiconductor LM80' (confidence: 3) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x2f Chip `National Semiconductor LM80' (confidence: 3) Driver `lm75' (should be inserted): Detects correctly: * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x48 Chip `National Semiconductor LM75' (confidence: 3) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x49 Chip `National Semiconductor LM75' (confidence: 3) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x4a Chip `National Semiconductor LM75' (confidence: 3) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x4b Chip `National Semiconductor LM75' (confidence: 3) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x4f Chip `National Semiconductor LM75' (confidence: 3) Driver `pcf8591' (may not be inserted): Misdetects: * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x48 Chip `Philips Semiconductors PCF8591' (confidence: 1) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x49 Chip `Philips Semiconductors PCF8591' (confidence: 1) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x4a Chip `Philips Semiconductors PCF8591' (confidence: 1) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x4b Chip `Philips Semiconductors PCF8591' (confidence: 1) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x4f Chip `Philips Semiconductors PCF8591' (confidence: 1) Driver `eeprom' (should be inserted): Detects correctly: * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x50 Chip `Serial EEPROM' (confidence: 8) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x51 Chip `Serial EEPROM' (confidence: 8) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x52 Chip `Serial EEPROM' (confidence: 8) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x53 Chip `Serial EEPROM' (confidence: 8) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x54 Chip `Serial EEPROM' (confidence: 8) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x55 Chip `Serial EEPROM' (confidence: 8) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x56 Chip `Serial EEPROM' (confidence: 8) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x57 Chip `Serial EEPROM' (confidence: 8) Driver `ltc1710' (should be inserted): Detects correctly: * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x58 Chip `LTC1710' (confidence: 1) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x59 Chip `LTC1710' (confidence: 1) * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x5a Chip `LTC1710' (confidence: 1) Driver `smbus-arp' (should be inserted): Detects correctly: * Bus `SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) Busdriver `i2c-amd756', I2C address 0x61 Chip `SMBus 2.0 ARP-Capable Device' (confidence: 1) I will now generate the commands needed to load the I2C modules. Sometimes, a chip is available both through the ISA bus and an I2C bus. ISA bus access is faster, but you need to load an additional driver module for it. If you have the choice, do you want to use the ISA bus or the I2C/SMBus (ISA/smbus)? smbus WARNING! If you have some things built into your kernel, the below list will contain too many modules. Skip the appropriate ones! To load everything that is needed, add this to some /etc/rc* file: #----cut here---- # I2C adapter drivers # modprobe unknown adapter bt848 #0 using Bit-shift algorithm modprobe i2c-amd756 # I2C chip drivers modprobe lm80 modprobe lm75 modprobe eeprom modprobe ltc1710 modprobe smbus-arp #----cut here---- To make the sensors modules behave correctly, add these lines to either /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules: #----cut here---- # I2C module options alias char-major-89 i2c-dev #----cut here---- Do you want to generate /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors? (YES/no): Copy prog/init/lm_sensors.init to /etc/rc.d/init.d/lm_sensors for initialization at boot time. I tried to use it "as is", but I get no values for fan speed, voltages or CPU temperature... Here is the output of i2cdetect: Error: No i2c-bus specified! Syntax: i2cdetect I2CBUS I2CBUS is an integer Installed I2C busses: i2c-0 i2c bt848 #0 Bit-shift algorithm i2c-1 smbus SMBus nVidia nForce adapter at ec00 Non-I2C SMBus adapter Therefore, I did a "i2cdetect 1" (as root), and here is the output: WARNING! This program can confuse your I2C bus, cause data loss and worse! I will probe file /dev/i2c-1 You have five seconds to reconsider and press CTRL-C! 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 00: 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f 10: 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 UU UU UU 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20: UU UU UU UU UU UU UU UU UU UU UU UU UU UU 2e 2f 30: 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3a 3b 3c 3d 3e 3f 40: 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4a 4b UU UU UU 4f 50: 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 5a 5b 5c 5d 5e 5f 60: 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 6a 6b 6c 6d 6e 6f 70: 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 7a 7b 7c 7d 7e 7f Thank you for your help! Regards Yann