Hi Simone, > > 2* In the logs, you should see an information line with the chip > > type, address and revision. > > 3* Still in the logs, you should see a warning about your BIOS being > > broken and PWM being disabled as a consequence. > > Confirmed, but it looks like there's a missing linefeed in the > warning. > > pioppo at roentgen ~ $ uname -a > Linux roentgen 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 #1 Sat Jan 15 16:23:34 CET 2005 x86_64 > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > pioppo at roentgen ~ $ dmesg|grep it87 > it87: Found IT8705F chip at 0x290, revision 2 > it87 0-0290: detected broken BIOS defaults, disabling pwm > interface<6>8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 True. The additional patch I posted earlier today fixes it though. You can now test this one, which adds the "fix_pwm_polarity" module parameter which will let you - at last - to use PWM the way it is meant to be. Let us know how it goes! :) -- Jean Delvare http://khali.linux-fr.org/