Do you need to force an address possibly? A lot of the sensor devices have fixed addresses. When you use a 'compatible' driver, it still tries by default to use the 'right' address for the device it was written for. For example, for the LM63 you can use the LM90 driver - but you have to force the address otherwise you get the same kind of error. You also may not get full functionality of the device, depending on how different the feature sets are. The lm-sensors site has some examples and descriptions of how to force addresses. Craig On 2/10/06, Williams, Kevin C <kevin.c.williams3 at boeing.com> wrote: > > My fan speed is at the highest possible speed when booted into linux on > this system(same as speed during POST). Load is 0.00 and x-windows is > not installed. Winxp has a no audible fan noise unless doing high > computation but never as high as with linux. So, I decided to figure > out how to tweak the fan speed. > > 'sensors-detect' found SMSC 47M15x/192 and I found that in the drivers > section of the website, I(think) can use the 'smsc47m1' driver. So I > tried it: > ~]# modprobe smsc47m1 force_addr=0x0800 > FATAL: Error inserting smsc47m1 > (/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp/kernel/drivers/i2c/chips/smsc47m1.ko) > : No such device > > 'dmesg' has no reference of the smsc47m1 device, but it was found at > 0x800 by sensors-detect with a cofidence of 9. Output of sensors-detect > is below. I should mention that I had run it before and 2 modules are > already loaded but they are just give me info about my RAM. > > > ~]# /usr/sbin/sensors-detect > > This program will help you determine which I2C/SMBus modules > > <snip> > > We can start with probing for (PCI) I2C or SMBus adapters. > You do not need any special privileges for this. > Do you want to probe now? (YES/no): y > Probing for PCI bus adapters... > Use driver `i2c-i801' for device 00:1f.3: Intel 82801EB ICH5 > Probe succesfully concluded. > > We will now try to load each adapter module in turn. > Module `i2c-i801' already loaded. > If you have undetectable or unsupported adapters, you can have them > scanned by manually loading the modules before running this script. > > To continue, we need module `i2c-dev' to be loaded. > If it is built-in into your kernel, you can safely skip this. > i2c-dev is already loaded. > > We are now going to do the adapter probings. Some adapters may hang > halfway > through; we can't really help that. Also, some chips will be double > detected; > we choose the one with the highest confidence value in that case. > If you found that the adapter hung after probing a certain address, you > can > specify that address to remain unprobed. That often > includes address 0x69 (clock chip). > > Next adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 0500 > Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): y > Client found at address 0x08 > Client found at address 0x2d > > <snip - failed probings> > > Client at address 0x50 can not be probed - unload all client drivers > first! > Client at address 0x52 can not be probed - unload all client drivers > first! > Client found at address 0x68 > Client found at address 0x69 > > Some chips are also accessible through the ISA bus. ISA probes are > typically a bit more dangerous, as we have to write to I/O ports to do > this. This is usually safe though. > > Do you want to scan the ISA bus? (YES/no): y > <snip - failed probings> > > Some Super I/O chips may also contain sensors. Super I/O probes are > typically a bit more dangerous, as we have to write to I/O ports to do > this. This is usually safe though. > > Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): y > > <snip failed probings> > > Probing for `SMSC 47M15x/192 Super IO Fan Sensors' > Success... found at address 0x0800 > > <snip failed probings> > > Do you want to scan for secondary Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): y > > <snip failed probings> > > Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. > Just press ENTER to continue: > > Driver `to-be-written' (should be inserted): > Detects correctly: > * ISA bus address 0x0800 (Busdriver `i2c-isa') > Chip `SMSC 47M15x/192 Super IO Fan Sensors' (confidence: 9) > > > I will now generate the commands needed to load the I2C modules. > Sometimes, a chip is available both through the ISA bus and an I2C bus. > ISA bus access is faster, but you need to load an additional driver > module > for it. If you have the choice, do you want to use the ISA bus or the > I2C/SMBus (ISA/smbus)? ISA > > To make the sensors modules behave correctly, add these lines to > /etc/modprobe.conf: > > #----cut here---- > # I2C module options > alias char-major-89 i2c-dev > #----cut here---- > > To load everything that is needed, add this to some /etc/rc* file: > > #----cut here---- > # I2C adapter drivers > modprobe i2c-isa > # I2C chip drivers > # no driver for SMSC 47M15x/192 Super IO Fan Sensors yet > # sleep 2 # optional > /usr/bin/sensors -s # recommended > #----cut here---- > > WARNING! If you have some things built into your kernel, the list above > will contain too many modules. Skip the appropriate ones! You really > should > try these commands right now to make sure everything is working > properly. > Monitoring programs won't work until it's done. > > Do you want to generate /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors? (YES/no): y > Copy prog/init/lm_sensors.init to /etc/rc.d/init.d/lm_sensors > for initialization at boot time. > > 'sensors' output: > ~]# sensors > eeprom-i2c-0-52 > Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 0500 > Memory type: DDR SDRAM DIMM > Memory size (MB): 512 > > eeprom-i2c-0-50 > Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 0500 > Memory type: DDR SDRAM DIMM > Memory size (MB): 512 > > -Kevin > > > > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20060210/87f31a55/attachment.html
