Jean, sorry to bother you again, but this didn't tell you anything about what's going on? Best regards, Stian l?r, 10.01.2004 kl. 05.06 skrev Stian Jordet: > tor, 08.01.2004 kl. 23.05 skrev Jean Delvare: > > > i2c_adapter i2c-0: Bus collision! SMBus may be locked until next hard > > > reset. (sorry!) > > > > > > Kernel 2.6.0 with lm-sensors 2.8.2. > > > > Are you able to reproduce the same behavior with kernel 2.4.24 and > > lm-sensors 2.8.2? > > Just tried, and I do. I forgot to mention it in my last mail, but I > sometime has to reload the modules before "sensors" finds any sensor. > > > > I get very weird results, especially on the fan, but others as well. > > > Here are three runs of sensors: > > > (...) > > > > Could you provide a few outputs of "i2cdump 0 0x2d"? I wonder if this > > will show read errors (as "XX") or simply changing values. > > Attached three runs. Seems to be some read errors :( On these three runs I got > first three bus-collisions, then one, and last two. > > > Does your BIOS provide a feature such as "Circle Of Protection" or > > anything that sounds like "active" hardware monitoring? Is it enabled? > > No such option. > > > If you have any other chips (eeproms for example) on the bus, do you > > observe similar behavior with these? > > Not other chips. > > > > It works fine with MBM in Windows. Well, MBM is having some troubles > > > with the temperature (it gets lower and lower as time pass, and ends > > > on about 8-9 degrees celsius. But fan and temperatures are read just > > > fine, never any glitch. On thing thing though, the Vcore2 is 1,70. The > > > Bios reports it correctly, but both MBM and LM-sensors says 1,50. Have > > > no idea why. The 1,50 is static, never changes, while VCore1 (which > > > ideally should be 1,75) varies from 1,75 to 1,79. In the BIOS both > > > seem sane, and varies with 3-4 degrees. > > > > > > I guess all these problems are because of the bus collision, which I > > > have read usually happens because of bad boards. Which I admit that I > > > do have, but it works in Windows :( > > > > Which motherboard is it? > > A Rioworks SDVIA (http://www.rioworks.com/SDVIA.htm) Not very new, I'm afraid. > And not very good. > > > Did you have to enable any particular option in MBM? > > Nah, it just worked :) > > > > What are the most common reasons for the bus collisions (...)? > > > > Bad brakes? > > > > Just kidding... ;) > > Hehe :) > > I guess this is unsolvable, but I just wanted to hear what you say. Kinda weird > it works so well with MBM, but that's ok. It's just for fun I want it to work. > > Thanks for your reply :) > > Best regards, > Stian
