Jean, hi,- > Do you see any hardware monitoring information in the BIOS setup > screen? Dmidecode tells me that APM is supported ACPI is supported And yes, CPU thermal info and fan speed is listed in the BIOS setup screen. > No, this particular SMSC chip can only do fan speed monitoring and > control. Thanks for clarifying that > If a recent version of sensors-detect didn't find any other sensor > device, indeed it looks like you can't monitor anything. > You may try ACPI (kernel modules "fan" and "thermal") instead though. Seems that I'm stuck with a rather 'outdated' piece of hardware and my wishes are too far-fetched. Thanks for all the information though! Kind regards, Jan van Tiggelen -----Original Message----- From: Jean Delvare [mailto:khali at linux-fr.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:04 AM To: Jan van Tiggelen Cc: lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org Subject: Re: SMSC47m1 Error inserting and Not configured - will notuse errors Hi Jan, > Honestly speaking I have no other reference (e.g. Windows) than this > installation to see what the chip is capable of reporting. Do you see any hardware monitoring information in the BIOS setup screen? If not, this is usually a good indication that there is no monitoring chip. > I'm assuming that, besides FAN-speeds, it also monitors and reports voltage > levels, etc... But I couldn't find any datasheet to support those thoughts. No, this particular SMSC chip can only do fan speed monitoring and control. > So probably that leaves me with a motherboard of which I cannot monitor > anything... Or do you have any other suggestions to get readings of, let's > say CPU core temperature, etc... If a recent version of sensors-detect didn't find any other sensor device, indeed it looks like you can't monitor anything. You may try ACPI (kernel modules "fan" and "thermal") instead though. -- Jean Delvare
