On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:57:07 +0200, Jan Schiefer wrote > I've been trying to get lm_sensors working on my lovely MSI K7N2 > Delta-L NForce2 mainboard since I switched to kernel 2.6.x. When I > choose ISA or SMBUS it makes no difference. I tried every version... > It never worked... > > Now I discovered the problem: False chip detection by sensors-detect. > I finally got it working (manually) with kernel 2.6.9-rc2 and lm_sensors > CVS. > Just because I was lucky I tried the right module. > > sensors-detect (even in latest CVS) makes following module suggestions: > i2c-nforce2, i2c-isa, eeprom, w83627hf > Only the eeprom reader will be detected then. > > The correct modules are: i2c-isa, eeprom, w83781d > Only these modules make it work. So you don't need i2c-nforce2 (I don't > know why on a NForce2-Board...) and w83781d instead of w83627hf. It's not exactly a false detection. Your motherboard has a W83627HF chip which happens to be supported by both the w83781d and the w83627hf drivers. The latter is prefered, so sensors-detect does the correct thing. Now, if the w83627hf driver doesn't see your chip, that's the real problem and we have to correct that. We would need: 1* The full output of sensors-detect. Make sure to unload all chip drivers (eeprom, w83781d, w83627hf) before running the script. 2* A dump of your chip contents. You should obtain it with "isadump 0x295 0x296". Also note that if you only load i2c-isa, eeprom and w83781d, the eeprom module will not actually be used, since it needs i2c-nforce2 (on your system). Thanks. -- Jean Delvare http://khali.linux-fr.org/
