Hi Sunil, > Ok, here it is, from the newer script: > (...) > Some Super I/O chips may also contain sensors. We have to write to > standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe. > Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): YES > Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f > Probing for `ITE IT8702F Sensors'... No (0x7901) > Probing for `ITE IT8705F Sensors'... No (0x7901) > Probing for `ITE IT8712F Sensors'... No (0x7901) > Probing for `ITE IT8716F Sensors'... No (0x7901) > Probing for `ITE IT8718F Sensors'... No (0x7901) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87351 Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87360 Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87363 Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87364 Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87365 Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87365 Voltage Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87365 Thermal Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87366 Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87366 Voltage Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87366 Thermal Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87372 Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87373 Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87591'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87371'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC97371'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC8739x'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC8741x'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87427 Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `Nat. Semi. PC87427 Health Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `SMSC LPC47B27x Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `SMSC LPC47M10x/13x Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `SMSC LPC47M14x Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `SMSC LPC47M15x/192/997 Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `SMSC LPC47S42x Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `SMSC LPC47S45x Fan Sensors'... No (0x79) > Probing for `SMSC LPC47M172'... No (0x79) > Probing for `SMSC LPC47B397-NC'... No (0x79) > Probing for `SMSC SCH5307-NS'... No (0x79) > Probing for `SMSC LPC47M584-NC'... No (0x79) > Probing for `VIA VT1211 Sensors'... No > Probing for `Winbond W83627EHF/EHG Sensors'... No You appear to have an unknown Super-I/O chip, presumably made by SMSC. Could be a custom chip made by SMSC for Dell. Sometimes Super-I/O have integrated hardware monitoring features. Without additional information (like the name of the chip), there's not much we can do though. > 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 e8a0' > Busdriver `i2c-i801', I2C address 0x50 > Chip `eeprom' (confidence: 6) > * Bus `SMBus I801 adapter at e8a0' > Busdriver `i2c-i801', I2C address 0x52 > Chip `eeprom' (confidence: 6) > > EEPROMs are *NOT* sensors! They are data storage chips commonly > found on memory modules (SPD), in monitors (EDID), or in some > laptops, for example. > That's exactly what I had from the first ever run. I am not sure why > subsequent runs refused to find any chip (A bug in older sensors-detect) but > this is what it found the very first time and I had set it up with these in Either because the user pretended i2c-dev needn't be loaded (hum hum), or because the eeprom driver was already loaded, and the user didn't unload it in spite of the script asking for it. I have since improved the script to gather information from already loaded i2c chip drivers, hopefully this should make things better. > /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors (gentoo diversion, /etc/init.d/lm_sensors reads it, I > think) and /etc/modules.conf. Obviously, 'sensors' still comes out with 'No > sensors found!' even when all the modules are loaded properly. Quite rightly so, as EEPROMs aren't sensors, as the script kindly but firmly reminded you above ;) Try "decode-dimms.pl" for decoded EEPROM contents. >From another post: > BIOS doesn't have any hardwar monitoring information. its a dell, what > do ya expect...;-) This is usually a good indication that there is no hardware monitoring chip in the machine. You may try ACPI (modprobe thermal; acpi -t) as your last hope. -- Jean Delvare
