Unfortunately the AMD 756 (and siblings) SMBUS does not seem to be entirely reliable; I have similar problems with it locking up and not coming back (on a similar machine). You need to disable whatever is trying to read your hardware sensors; this will either be a GUI application (a couple of the system monitors do this) or a daemon (e.g., sensord). merlin r/mds at paradyne.com/2003.06.09/21:29:40 >something is accessing the bus every few seconds. >If things seem to be working anyway you can comment the messages out in the driver. > >Shriram Ramanathan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a dual processor (AMD 1.8 GHz) machine with Redhat Linux installed. >> I have this awfully irritating message cropping up on my terminal every >> few seconds. >> >> "i2c-amd756.o: Busy wait timeout! (0d00) >> i2c-amd756.o: Sending abort." >> >> I dont know how to fix this (I havent tried rebooting the m/c as yet) >> Could you tell me what is going wrong ? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Regards, >> shriram >> >> PS : I am a newbie to sysadmin and so might need some >> elaboration on this....i.e. if it is not too much of a trouble for you.
