Did you try http://rivatv.sourceforge.net/download.html It should have a driver called i2c-riva so you dont need to override the bus. It will create new bus with hopefully this device too. Regards Rudolf On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Colin O'Flynn wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the quick response! > > > > What video card is it? > > Its a GeForce 5600 MX, made my MSI - Part Number FX5600-VTD256. I've got no > idea how the I2C bus gets put on the system normally, no bus was detected. > Would the NVidia chip have the I2C controller in it or something? As you can > see, I don't know a lot about how I2C works in the computer - in fact I just > got lm_sensors working on Thursday! > > I ended up lifting the two leads on the SSOP chip that were SCL and SDA, then > putting them to the connector on the motherboard with wires... > > > If you want to test it, Colin, it would be nice. > > Alas, I'm using Kernel 2.6.0. It appears that driver was made for 2.4.x > kernels (make sense considering it was made before 2.6!). I know very little > about linux drivers, so I doubt I will be able to port it. I might try > though, I was just comparing the drivers for a 2.6 vs 2.4 to try and figure > out what you I've got to do... hmm. > > I might end up doing what I am now... just use i2cdump 0 0x2d to read the > data... not very nice, but it works! > > Regards, > > -Colin > > > > On February 21, 2004 09:40 am, Rudolf Marek wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm very sorry I have been very busy with writing my book. ANd now I'm as > > exchange student in Sweden so I didnt have time to finish it. > > > > But I have working /proc interface, supporting fan, pwm, temps and > > temp_fault. > > > > Only thing is missing are voltages monitoring. > > > > This chip is on my motherboard and serving mainly for ASUS Cpu Overheat > > PRotection. SOit has not connected much things. (no voltages, no FANs) I > > want to solder PWM outputs and use it for speed regulation. > > > > The driver is for sensors version 2.8.0 > > > > ruik$ ls /proc/sys/dev/sensors/w83785-i2c-1-2d/ > > fan_div fan1 fan2 pwm_div pwm1 pwm2 ram temp_fault temp1 temp2 > > > > If you want to test it, Colin, it would be nice. > > > > Most of the files in /proc can be written. > > > > Regards > > > > Rudolf > > > > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > Quoting Colin O'Flynn: > > > > I'm interested in getting a W83L785R sensor working on my video card. > > > > I can read from it fine (I actually patched the SCL/SDA lines from the > > > > chip to my motherboard... I was having trouble getting the I2C bus on > > > > the video card detected) at address 0x2d. > > > > > > What video card is it? > > > > > > > I see there is already a driver under development for this device, is > > > > there any way I can find out the status and/or help? > > > > > > Back in August 2003, Rudolf Marek was working on one. > > > > > > Rudolf, do you have some working code you would like to share with Colin > > > and the lm_sensors project? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- > > > Jean Delvare > > > http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/ > >
