hi, > > i have tried to run acpi and sensors on asus m6va notebook, > but i have come accross problems im not able to solve. > > sensors-detect found i2c-i801 bus and lm85 and eeprom chips. > i can probe all kernel modules without difficulty, sensors > seem to work as far as statistics concerned. > > first problem starts, when boot initscript tries to intialize > sensors - kacpid kernel module takes 99% CPU and stick to this > usage. i found, this happens whenever "sensors -s" is executed. > when i switched off initialization (INITSENSORS=no), notebook > boots without difficulty. Please send me in private output of cat /proc/acpi/dsdt > /tmp/dsdt.bin It may be the reason that acpi is trying to access the chip too. > second problem is, that i can't setup fans, although i can read > their current state. when i run pwmconfig, there are errors such as: > > 0-002d/pwm1 > /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: line 102: 0-002d/pwm1_enable: Permission denied > > can be this problem caused by skipping sensors initialization ? This is long term problem. The driver is too complex to fix it without having this chip and nobody else (Khali and me) never show up with a patch fixing this. (I recall someone already worked on this but never finished) I hope this helps, regards Rudolf
