khali> > Probing for `ITE IT8705F / IT8712F / SiS 950' khali> > Trying address 0x0290... Failed! khali> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I guess it's there? Yes exactly, that says success and everything else proceeds as expected. khali> What's more, your first khali> proposal was to mask with 0x7f, not 0xff, which was not very logical. No but it worked, and was the first attempt I made to get it to work. Maybe the values being passed are wrong, or we are getting sign extension? khali> Do we have any chance to know what this patch does? Not sure it as an khali> interest though. I believe it is a UTF patch, I googled for perl and UTF8 and found a few references to this bug in other scripts, and there is reference to Redhat using an unreleased patch. On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:32:22 +0200 Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> wrote: khali> khali> > With LANG=en_US.UTF8 khali> > It fails to detect the ITE IT8705F / IT8712F / SiS 950, but I don't khali> > get the warnings anymore. khali> > khali> > with LANG=en_US khali> > it does detect the IT8705F khali> khali> That's almost what I had expected. I think that your issue and the khali> warnings were mostly unrelated. I was able to reproduce the warning on a khali> non-UTF system, and a friend of mine, who is using a Red Hat 9 system in khali> "UTF mode", could run this version (well, Red Hat's one but the fix is khali> almost the same) and had his chipset detected. What's more, your first khali> proposal was to mask with 0x7f, not 0xff, which was not very logical. So khali> I think there is a *second* bug hiding in there. Maybe it's only khali> relative to your particular chipset, maybe not. khali> khali> Where does the output differ when the chipset is successfully found? khali> khali> > (...) khali> > Probing for `VIA Technologies VT8231 Integrated Sensors' khali> > Trying general detect... Failed! khali> > Probing for `ITE IT8705F / IT8712F / SiS 950' khali> > Trying address 0x0290... Failed! khali> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I guess it's there? khali> > Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' khali> > Trying address 0x0ca0... Failed! khali> > Probing for `IPMI BMC SMIC' khali> > Trying address 0x0ca8... Failed! khali> khali> > This is on Redhhat 9 perl with a patch.. as shown below... khali> khali> Do we have any chance to know what this patch does? Not sure it as an khali> interest though. khali> khali> OK, the next step will be to prepare a specially modified sensors-detect khali> script with a lot of debugging info for your particular chipset. Then, khali> I'll ask you to run it both with and without the UTF8 locale, and we'll khali> see where the hell the bug is lurking. khali> khali> The process could be drastically accelerated if you have a possibility khali> to meet me on IRC (Khali at freenode). khali> khali> -- khali> Jean Delvare khali> http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/ khali> -- Jim Morris morris at wolfman.com
