Hi Albert: BTW: your question better belongs to the lm-sensors mailing list rather than the i2c one... so I'm cc'ing there (and leaving all of the original text). One comment inline... * Albert <albertvd at gmail.com> [2006-07-06 12:17:45 +0200]: > On 06/07/06, Albert <albertvd at gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a Pentium M board from Ampro with a Winbond W83627HF chip > > running SuSE 9.3. > > It is an Ampro Readyboard 800 with a Pentium M 1.1 > (http://www.ampro.com/html/EPIC_FormFactor_ReadyBoard_800.html). In > the reference manual it states it uses a Winbond W83627HF super I/O > controller to monitor temperatures etc. > > The machine is running SuSE 9.2 with Kernel 2.6.11.4-20a-default. (I > checked again and it is SuSE 9.2 and not SuSE 9.3) > > Help would really be appreciated. It seems that the chip cannot be found. > > # sensors -v > sensors version 2.9.0 with libsensors version 2.9.0 > > # modprobe i2c-isa > # modprobe w83627hf > FATAL: Error inserting w83627hf > (/lib/modules/2.6.11.4-20a-default/kernel/drivers/i2c/chips/w83627hf.ko): > No such device > > Output from dmesg: > # dmesg > Linux version 2.6.11.4-20a-default (geeko at buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.5 20050117 > (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Wed Mar 23 21:52:37 UTC 2005 > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000000009e000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ede8000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000001ede8000 - 000000001f000000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) > 0MB HIGHMEM available. > 493MB LOWMEM available. > On node 0 totalpages: 126440 > DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 > Normal zone: 122344 pages, LIFO batch:16 > HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 > DMI not present. > ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP > Allocating PCI resources starting at 1f000000 (gap: 1f000000:e0f00000) > Built 1 zonelists > Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=SUSE_LINUX_9.3 root=302 selinux=0 splash=si > lent resume=/dev/hda3 showopts > bootsplash: silent mode. > Initializing CPU#0 > PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes) > Detected 1000.094 MHz processor. > Using tsc for high-res timesource > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 > Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) > Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) > Memory: 496464k/505760k available (1865k kernel code, 8752k reserved, 659k data, > 204k init, 0k highmem) > Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. > Calibrating delay loop... 1978.36 BogoMIPS (lpj=989184) > Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized > SELinux: Disabled at boot. > Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) > CPU: After generic identify, caps: afe9f9ff 00100000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > 00000000 00000000 > CPU: After vendor identify, caps: afe9f9ff 00100000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0 > 0000000 00000000 > CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K > CPU: L2 cache: 512K > CPU: After all inits, caps: afe9f9ff 00100000 00000000 00000040 00000000 0000000 > 0 00000000 > Intel machine check architecture supported. > Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. > CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.00GHz stepping 08 > Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. > Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. > Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. > checking if image is initramfs... it is > Freeing initrd memory: 1244k freed > NET: Registered protocol family 16 > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xff6b1, last bus=2 > PCI: Using configuration type 1 > mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) > ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211 > ACPI: Interpreter disabled. > Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay > pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) > PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1 > PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 > TC classifier action (bugs to netdev at oss.sgi.com cc hadi at cyberus.ca) > apm: BIOS not found. > audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) > audit(1152115920.079:0): initialized > Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 > VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 > Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) > Initializing Cryptographic API > isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... > isapnp: No Plug & Play device found > Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 > PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. > serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 > serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 > Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled > ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > ttyS3 at I/O 0x2e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > io scheduler noop registered > io scheduler anticipatory registered > io scheduler deadline registered > io scheduler cfq registered > floppy0: no floppy controllers found > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize > loop: loaded (max 8 devices) > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice > input: PC Speaker > md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 > NET: Registered protocol family 2 > IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes > TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) > TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) > NET: Registered protocol family 1 > PM: Checking swsusp image. > PM: Resume from disk failed. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 > ICH4: chipset revision 2 > ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xdc00-0xdc07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xdc08-0xdc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio > Probing IDE interface ide0... > hda: ST930218A, ATA DISK drive > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > Probing IDE interface ide1... > hda: max request size: 1024KiB > hda: 58605120 sectors (30005 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) > hda: cache flushes supported > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 > Attempting manual resume > PM: Checking swsusp image. > swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature? > PM: Resume from disk failed. > ReiserFS: hda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal > ReiserFS: hda2: using ordered data mode > reiserfs: using flush barriers > ReiserFS: hda2: journal params: device hda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, > max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 > ReiserFS: hda2: checking transaction log (hda2) > ReiserFS: hda2: Using r5 hash to sort names > ReiserFS: hda2: Removing [128 432266 0x0 SD]..done > ReiserFS: hda2: Removing [128 390746 0x0 SD]..done > ReiserFS: hda2: Removing [128 49879 0x0 SD]..done > ReiserFS: hda2: Removing [128 49870 0x0 SD]..done > ReiserFS: hda2: Removing [460 49830 0x0 SD]..done > ReiserFS: hda2: There were 5 uncompleted unlinks/truncates. Completed > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > ide: failed opcode was: unknown > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > ide: failed opcode was: unknown > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > ide: failed opcode was: unknown > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > ide: failed opcode was: unknown > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > ide: failed opcode was: unknown > ide0: reset: success > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > ide: failed opcode was: unknown > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > ide: failed opcode was: unknown > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > ide: failed opcode was: unknown > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > ide: failed opcode was: unknown > ide0: reset: success > md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. > md: autorun ... > md: ... autorun DONE. > Adding 2136636k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:42 extents:1 > device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com > Capability LSM initialized > ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' > ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized > video1394: Installed video1394 module > lp: driver loaded but no devices found > usbcore: registered new driver usbfs > usbcore: registered new driver hub > USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 5, io base 0xf400 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 > hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected > uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 9, io base 0xf000 > uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 > hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected > ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 5, pci mem 0xf0080000 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 > PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7 > ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 > hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found > hub 3-0:1.0: 6 ports detected > Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones > agpgart: Detected an Intel 855 Chipset. > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 422M > agpgart: Detected 16252K stolen memory. > agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000 > e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.4.1-NAPI > e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation > e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xf0100000, irq 5, MAC addr 00:08:9B:68:05:44 > Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.6.10.1-k2-NAPI > Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation. > e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection > e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex > SCSI subsystem initialized > st: Version 20041025, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 > BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found > Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 > NET: Registered protocol family 10 > Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c033d600(lo) > IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver > Disabled Privacy Extensions on device dd0bb000(sit0) > powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs > eth0: no IPv6 routers present > spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > i2c /dev entries driver > i2c /dev entries driver > > > Output from sensors-detect: > # sensors-detect > > This program will help you determine which I2C/SMBus modules you need to > load to use lm_sensors most effectively. You need to have i2c and > lm_sensors installed before running this program. > Also, you need to be `root', or at least have access to the /dev/i2c-* > files, for most things. > If you have patched your kernel and have some drivers built in, you can > safely answer NO if asked to load some modules. In this case, things may > seem a bit confusing, but they will still work. > > It is generally safe and recommended to accept the default answers to all > questions, unless you know what you're doing. > > 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): > Probing for PCI bus adapters... > Use driver `i2c-i801' for device 00:1f.3: Intel 82801DB ICH4 > 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 d800 > Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): > Client found at address 0x50 > Probing for `SPD EEPROM'... Success! > (confidence 8, driver `eeprom') > Probing for `DDC monitor'... Failed! > Probing for `Maxim MAX6900'... Failed! > 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): > Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' > Trying address 0x0290... Failed! > Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J' > Trying address 0x0290... Failed! > Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79' > Trying address 0x0290... Failed! > Probing for `Winbond W83781D' > Trying address 0x0290... Failed! > Probing for `Winbond W83782D' > Trying address 0x0290... Failed! > Probing for `Winbond W83627HF' > Trying address 0x0290... Failed! > Probing for `Winbond W83697HF' > Trying address 0x0290... Failed! > Probing for `Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595' > Trying general detect... Failed! > Probing for `VIA Technologies VT82C686 Integrated Sensors' > Trying general detect... Failed! > Probing for `VIA Technologies VT8231 Integrated Sensors' > Trying general detect... Failed! > Probing for `ITE IT8705F / IT8712F / SiS 950' > Trying address 0x0290... Failed! > Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' > Trying address 0x0ca0... Failed! > Probing for `IPMI BMC SMIC' > Trying address 0x0ca8... Failed! > > 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): > Probing for `ITE 8702F Super IO Sensors' > Failed! (skipping family) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87351 Super IO Fan Sensors' > Failed! (skipping family) > Probing for `SMSC 47B27x Super IO Fan Sensors' > Failed! (skipping family) > Probing for `VT1211 Super IO Sensors' > Failed! (0x52) > Probing for `Winbond W83627HF Super IO Sensors' > Success... but not activated Well, here it is. I'm not very familiar with this driver though. Can this chip be 'activated' somehow? > Probing for `Winbond W83627THF Super IO Sensors' > Failed! (0x52) > Probing for `Winbond W83637HF Super IO Sensors' > Failed! (0x52) > Probing for `Winbond W83697HF Super IO Sensors' > Failed! (0x52) > Probing for `Winbond W83697SF/UF Super IO PWM' > Failed! (0x52) > Probing for `Winbond W83L517D Super IO' > Failed! (0x52) > > Do you want to scan for secondary Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): > Probing for `ITE 8702F Super IO Sensors' > Failed! (skipping family) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87351 Super IO Fan Sensors' > Failed! (skipping family) > Probing for `SMSC 47B27x Super IO Fan Sensors' > Failed! (skipping family) > Probing for `VT1211 Super IO Sensors' > Failed! (skipping family) > > Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. > Just press ENTER to continue: > > Driver `eeprom' (should be inserted): > Detects correctly: > * Bus `SMBus I801 adapter at d800' (Algorithm unavailable) > Busdriver `i2c-i801', I2C address 0x50 > Chip `SPD EEPROM' (confidence: 8) > > > 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-i801 > # I2C chip drivers > modprobe eeprom > # 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): > Copy /usr/share/doc/packages/sensors/prog/init/lm_sensors.init.suse > to /etc/init.d/lm_sensors for initialization at boot time. > > Output from lsmod: > # lsmod > Module Size Used by > i2c_sensor 3584 0 > i2c_isa 2048 0 > i2c_dev 9216 0 > i2c_i801 8588 0 > i2c_core 21776 4 i2c_sensor,i2c_isa,i2c_dev,i2c_i801 > ipv6 236672 19 > speedstep_lib 4100 0 > freq_table 4484 0 > processor 23732 0 > nvram 8200 0 > edd 10080 0 > evdev 8832 0 > joydev 9664 0 > sg 36256 0 > st 37788 0 > sd_mod 17936 0 > sr_mod 16548 0 > scsi_mod 125256 4 sg,st,sd_mod,sr_mod > e1000 83508 0 > e100 35968 0 > mii 4864 1 e100 > intel_agp 21532 1 > agpgart 32296 1 intel_agp > ehci_hcd 31624 0 > uhci_hcd 30224 0 > usbcore 108760 3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd > parport_pc 38212 0 > lp 11076 0 > parport 33864 2 parport_pc,lp > video1394 17612 0 > ohci1394 31492 1 video1394 > raw1394 28140 0 > ieee1394 97976 3 video1394,ohci1394,raw1394 > capability 3256 0 > dm_mod 56316 0 > reiserfs 242928 1 > ide_cd 37892 0 > cdrom 36640 2 sr_mod,ide_cd > ide_disk 16640 4 > piix 9988 0 [permanent] > ide_core 120020 3 ide_cd,ide_disk,piix > > Output from isadump: > # isadump 0x295 0x296 > WARNING! Running this program can cause system crashes, data loss and worse! > I will probe address register 0x295 and data register 0x296. > Continue? [Y/n] > 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f > 00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > 40: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff > f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff Regards, -- Mark M. Hoffman mhoffman at lightlink.com