Hi Torsten, >I hope this is the best address for this kind of trouble report. If >not I would be grateful for pointers to a better place. > > >I want to use the sensors of my Abit KT7A-RAID motherboard, running >Debian Sarge. For this, I started sensors-detect, which told me use >the modules i2c-isa and via686a. I use a monolithic kernel, but I >double-checked that both items are part of my 2.6.9 kernel. > >Alas, sensors can't find anything but the RAM: >- - - Schnipp - - - >yooden at eumel % sensors >eeprom-i2c-1-51 >Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 >Memory type: SDR SDRAM DIMM >Memory size (MB): 256 > >eeprom-i2c-1-50 >Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 >Memory type: SDR SDRAM DIMM >Memory size (MB): 256 >- - - Schnapp - - - > > >Here are some kernel option which I think are important: >- - - Schnipp - - - ># ># I2C support ># >CONFIG_I2C=y >CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=y > ># ># I2C Algorithms ># >CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=y ># CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCF is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_ALGOPCA is not set > ># ># I2C Hardware Bus support ># ># CONFIG_I2C_ALI1535 is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_ALI1563 is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_ALI15X3 is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_AMD756 is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_AMD8111 is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_ELEKTOR is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_I801 is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_I810 is not set >CONFIG_I2C_ISA=y ># CONFIG_I2C_NFORCE2 is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_PARPORT_LIGHT is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_PIIX4 is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_PROSAVAGE is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_SAVAGE4 is not set ># CONFIG_SCx200_ACB is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_SIS5595 is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_SIS630 is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_SIS96X is not set ># CONFIG_I2C_VIA is not set >CONFIG_I2C_VIAPRO=y The problem is here. i2c-viapro and via686a are mutually exclusive in 2.6. Remove i2c-viapro from your kernel if you want via686a to work >(...) ># ># Other I2C Chip support ># >CONFIG_SENSORS_EEPROM=y Note that you may then disable this one too, since it'll be useless without i2c-viapro. The conflict is documented on our 2.6 kernel info page: http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/kernel26.html I admit it would be better to actually fix the problem. Unfortunately I don't know how to do that myself. -- Jean Delvare
