On Sunday, 2004-04-04 at 16:04:41 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > 2.8.3 gives me a clue: > > i2c-piix4.o: Host SMBus controller not enabled! > > When I forcefully enable it, i2cdetect -l lists an SMBus: > > i2c-0 smbus SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 0580 Non-I2C SMBus > > adapter > How did you get the address value of 0x0580? On your ticket it was > 0x6000. Basically, unless Dell tells you the correct address, or there's > nothing we can do for you. That 0x0580 was detected by i2cdetect. Dell gave me a different address that did not work. Maybe it's from a different system. > > But as soon as I let sensors-detect scan it, the machine locks up: > > Next adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 0580 (Non-I2C SMBus adapter) > > Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): > > Client found at address 0x00 > > <hangs> > It may not be the problem (more likely you didn't force the correct > address) but we recently fixed i2cdetect and sensors-detect so that they > don't scan special addresses anymore. This includes 0x00 (this is a > broadcast address). I will see that I can try that. > > I have no desire to repeat the crash-and-burn for all 127 remaining > > adresses. Is there a way to use dmidecode to find the sensor chips? > Not that I know of. Sigh. Would be too easy, hum? > > Those handles look like this: > > Handle 0xDD02 > > DMI type 221, 19 bytes. > > OEM-specific Type > > Header and Data: > > DD 13 02 DD 00 00 00 3A F0 04 FC 00 00 00 00 > > 00 00 62 F0 > > Maybe a recipe to gain access to that data. > > Any ideas or hints? > Not really. All I can decode are the four first bytes: DD is the type > (221) and 13 is the length (19 bytes), 02 DD is the handle reference. So > the real data starts after that. But as said it is OEM-specific so > unless Dell tells you how to decode these bytes, it doesn't help in any > way. .. and they aren't being helpful. I also tried the Dell mailing list with this qestion. Deafening silence. Thanks for your information! Lupe Christoph -- | lupe at lupe-christoph.de | http://www.lupe-christoph.de/ | | "Violence is the resort of the violent" Lu Tze | | "Thief of Time", Terry Pratchett |
