* Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> [2003-08-04 20:38:15 +0200]: > > > For the BIOS, I have is the latest version. Therefore, this is not > > the solution. > > Wrong. You can have the latest BIOS and this BIOS can be dead broken. > Wouldn't be the first time, nor the last. It's especially possible on > recent hardware. > > BTW, is there any monitoring information shown in the BIOS screens (boot > time and setup)? > > > I also tried the new 2.6.0-test2 kernel and I got some improvements : > > now it detects the SMBus but it says it is disabled. Ugh. That's too bad... > > Here is the output of lspci -vv: > > > > 00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0016 > > Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- > > ParErr- > > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > > Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > > Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 10 > > Region 4: I/O ports at 1000 [disabled] [size=32] > > > > The IRQ is 10 which is the same as the Firewire and the CardBus > > controllers. However, I didn't compile Firewire and CardBus in the > > kernel. Therefore, I don't think it is an IRQ conflict. Do `cat /proc/ioports` to see if anything collides with 0x1000-0x101f. If it's some device you don't use, try completely disabling that device in the BIOS. Otherwise (unless Jean's hints work) I think you're out of luck, sorry. > It could be linked to ACPI. Linux ACPI support includes an alternative > IRQ routing system, which sometimes solves this kind of problems. If you > don't use ACPI yet, I think it could be a good time to give it a try. > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36832 > Make sure you use the latest version. Note that real ACPI support > doesn't exist in Linux 2.4 before 2.4.22-pre4 or so. > > Likewise, if you *do* use ACPI on your laptop, you could try disabling > it for a short time and test if lm_sensors then works, or pass some > parameter to your kernel that change how ACPI works: > http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/81_acpi.html > > I'm only guessing, maybe it won't help at all. Regards, -- Mark M. Hoffman mhoffman at lightlink.com
