In letter Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:06:58 -0700, Juerg Haefliger wrote: > Can you please post the full output of sensors-detect? > > ...juerg > yes, i can... ################################## $ sudo sensors-detect Password: # sensors-detect revision 4171 (2006-09-24 03:37:01 -0700) This program will help you determine which kernel modules you need to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. 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. Do you want to probe now? (YES/no): yes Probing for PCI bus adapters... Use driver `i2c-viapro' for device 0000:00:07.3: VIA Technologies VT82C596 Apollo ACPI We will now try to load each adapter module in turn. Module `i2c-viapro' 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. Do you want to load `i2c-dev' now? (YES/no): yes Module loaded successfully. We are now going to do the I2C/SMBus adapter probings. Some chips may 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. Next adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): yes Client found at address 0x51 Handled by driver `eeprom' (already loaded), chip type `eeprom' Client found at address 0x69 Some chips are also accessible through the ISA I/O ports. We have to write to arbitrary I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe though. Yes, you do have ISA I/O ports even if you do not have any ISA slots! Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (YES/no): yes Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' at 0x290... No Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J' at 0x290... No Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79' at 0x290... No Probing for `Winbond W83781D' at 0x290... No Probing for `Winbond W83782D' at 0x290... No Probing for `Winbond W83627HF' at 0x290... No Probing for `Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595'... No Probing for `VIA VT82C686 Integrated Sensors'... No Probing for `VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors'... No Probing for `AMD K8 thermal sensors'... No Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' at 0xca0... No Probing for `IPMI BMC SMIC' at 0xca8... No 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 Trying family `ITE'... No Trying family `National Semiconductor'... No Trying family `SMSC'... No Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Fintek'... No Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f Trying family `ITE'... No Trying family `National Semiconductor'... No Trying family `SMSC'... No Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Fintek'... No 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 Via Pro adapter at 5000' Busdriver `i2c-viapro', I2C address 0x51 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. I will now generate the commands needed to load the required modules. Just press ENTER to continue: If you want to load the modules at startup, generate a config file below and make sure lm_sensors gets started at boot time; e.g $ rc-update add lm_sensors default To make the sensors modules behave correctly, add these lines to /etc/modules.d/lm_sensors and run modules-update: #----cut here---- # I2C module options alias char-major-89 i2c-dev #----cut here---- If you have some drivers 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 the needed modules are loaded. To load everything that is needed, execute the commands below... #----cut here---- # I2C adapter drivers modprobe i2c-viapro # Chip drivers modprobe eeprom # sleep 2 # optional /usr/bin/sensors -s # recommended #----end cut here---- Do you want to overwrite /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors? Enter s to specify other file name? (yes/NO/s): ###########################