Hi Jean: Thanks! Yep, that is pretty much what I thought was true except for the part about not being able to assist. It (fscscy.c) appears to have almost all the correct functions: 6 fans, PWM control, temperatures, voltages and only needing better code(for 2.6) and a few adjustments. I, being really new at this, needed _some_ guideline, even an old and dead one. Of course, I'll take your advice. Thanks for providing it. :) Thank you for the 8712F info too. Yes , it is 2 not 3 additonal fan registers(payback 2me for posting at nap time...). Even if lm_sensors users do not complain about not having the 2 other fans, I am 99% certain that no user would be upset by being able to monitor the other two. It would be an advantage, ithink. For what it might be worth as a gauge, SpeedFan(for MS OS) author started working on adding those two a few months back and there are quite a few users who have expressed interest. Relative to other speedfan issues, it is quite a long list. If needed, this is the new-er datasheet: IT8712F Preliminary Specification V0.8.2 ITE TECH. INC. http://www.ite.com.tw/product_info/file/pc/IT8712F_V0.8.2.pdf Regards, Ric ================ --- Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> wrote: > Hi Ric, > > > On the subject of using an existing driver, quite a while back I > looked > > hard for options to use. All fell short but the fscscy.c driver for > the > > Fujitsu-Siemens Scylla chip looked promising. Alas there was no > kernel > > module for it so I could not test it. ( I never found out why > fscscy.o > > is MIA... ) The /usr/share/doc/packages/sensors/chips/fscscy does > > exist. > > This is an old driver, for an old and rare chip. Nobody took the time > to port the driver to Linux 2.6, which is why you can't find it. The > chip drivers documentation in the lm_sensors package is for the Linux > 2.4 drivers and should not be installed on a Linux 2.6-based system. > > I would be very surprised if a Scylla chip was used in a recent > system. > And I very much doubt any other chip would be even slightly > compatible > with it. So my advice would be: forget about fscscy, it's not going > to > help you. > > > The point of this being that there are 3 more fans that the IT8712F > can > > monitor, according to the datasheet, but it appears that the 8712F > > driver does not have those other 3 fans. If so, is there anybody > > working on upgrading that driver? > > The latest revisions of the IT8712F can support 5 fans instead of 3. > This is 2 more fans, not 3. Our driver doesn't support them for now, > but it could be added if enough users show interest. > > -- > Jean Delvare > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
