> I believe there is some confusion about what chips are on the Iwill > MPX2. I obviously own one, and I'm guilty of looking at it to try and > see what chips are on it (it's already installed in the case!) but > I've done a bit of research, and I strongly believe that the MPX2 has > a LM90, not LM83 on board. I wouldn't be surprised. The confusion comes from two different facts: 1* The LM83 data sheet is missing the device ID. 2* Both chips are partly compatible. > The best evidence is the Motherboard Monitor, MBM > (http://mbm.livewiredev.com/) site (undoubtedly you've heard of it); Sure I have, we are sometimes working together with Alex van Kaam, MBM's author, and share our views and experiences. > it lists the MPX2 as having a LM90. This is no proof. Both chips being partly compatible, one can use a lm90 driver on a LM83 and get reasonable results. I remember Alex told me he wasn't really interested in having a separate lm83 driver. > Furthermore, I have installed the MBM and it does show temperatures > for both CPUs. More interesting. Incidentally, Alex and I were discussing about that some days ago. He uses special tricks to handle that (and kindly shared that information with me). I had some difficulties understanding it at first, because I had never seen systems requiring the trick, maybe you'll make me change my mind. > On the other hand, only temp1 and temp3 on lm_sensors LM83 show > temperatures for the MPX2; temp 2 and temp4 both report 0C. This is definitely the sign that this isn't a LM83 - unless the motherboard designer was crazy enough to solder a 4-temp sensor where a 2-temp one would suffice. > I am willing to test whatever LM90 software you may have. > (...) I currently have 2.8.0, i2c and lm_sensors, installed. To the good news now... LM Sensors 2.8.1, which was released yesterday, has full support for the LM90 :) Please give it a try, and tell me how it works for you. If Alex's trick is required for the MPX2, you'll see only the temperature for one CPU. In that case, I'll think of a way to use the trick in lm_sensors so that you can access both. (Don't know how at all for now, we'll see that later.) Thanks a lot for your feedback. Comments about how the detection works, how the driver works, how accurate/useful the docs are, are always welcome :) -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/ ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
