On Friday 27 June 2003 12:40 am, you wrote: > > I guess there were similar errors (Malformed UTF-8 character) for some > other chipsets? > yes for instance... Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' Trying address 0x0ca0... Called inb with port=3235 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0xff, immediately after start byte 0xff) in ord at sensors-detect2.pl line 1358. Read value with ord=0 Returning res=255 Failed! > Anyway, I'm stumped. I was expecting your system to return UTF-8 chars > from /dev/ports, and it doesn't seem so (or why would perl say they are > malformed?) And if it returns regular chars, why are the values > different from the ones obtained with a non-UTF-8 locale? I just don't > understand. This could be a bug in Perl and their partial UTF8 hack > > So from here I only see two possibilities: > > 1* Opening /dev/ports in binary mode solves the problem (which I doubt, > since traditionally, Unix systems don't differenciate text and binary > modes). Please grab the modified script that does this and tell me if it > works: > http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/sensors-detect-k3 With UTF8...... Probing for `ITE IT8705F / IT8712F / SiS 950' Trying address 0x0290... Called inb with port=657 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x90, with no preceding start byte) in ord at sensors-detect-k3 line 1358. Read value with ord=0 Returning res=144 Called inb with port=658 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x90, with no preceding start byte) in ord at sensors-detect-k3 line 1358. Read value with ord=0 Returning res=144 Called inb with port=659 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x90, with no preceding start byte) in ord at sensors-detect-k3 line 1358. Read value with ord=0 Returning res=144 Called inb with port=663 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x90, with no preceding start byte) in ord at sensors-detect-k3 line 1358. Read value with ord=0 Returning res=144 Called inb with port=661 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Read value with ord=1552 Returning res=216 Called inb with port=661 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Read value with ord=66 Returning res=66 Failed! Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' Trying address 0x0ca0... Called inb with port=3235 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0xff, immediately after start byte 0xff) in ord at sensors-detect-k3 line 1358. Read value with ord=0 Returning res=255 Failed! ================================================================ Without UTF8 Probing for `ITE IT8705F / IT8712F / SiS 950' Trying address 0x0290... Called inb with port=657 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Read value with ord=255 Returning res=255 Called inb with port=658 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Read value with ord=255 Returning res=255 Called inb with port=659 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Read value with ord=255 Returning res=255 Called inb with port=663 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Read value with ord=255 Returning res=255 Called inb with port=661 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Read value with ord=79 Returning res=79 Called inb with port=661 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Read value with ord=176 Returning res=176 Called inb with port=662 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Read value with ord=17 Returning res=17 Called inb with port=662 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Read value with ord=144 Returning res=144 Success! (confidence 8, driver `it87') Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' Trying address 0x0ca0... Called inb with port=3235 After sysseek After sysread, nrchars=1 Read value with ord=255 Returning res=255 Failed! -- Jim Morris
