Hi Mark, On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:39:21 -0700, Mark E. Hansen wrote: > On 10/28/07 07:44, Jean Delvare wrote: > > * Find working configuration files for boards similar to yours, they > > might hold valuable hints. > > But if I understand it correctly, it's not just that they use the same > chipset and sensor chips, but the resistors they use could easily be > different (even the type of heat sensor, for example), right? You are right. But manufacturers have their habits, so two motherboards from a given manufacturer using the same monitoring chip are likely to share some settings. > > This is tricky either way. It took me two years to be able to write > > custom configuration files with good results, so I don't really expect > > users to get it right at their first try. > > I can see why. Is it true that I'm the first person to try to get the > sensors package running on this particular mother board? When I chose > this board, I had lm-sensors in mind, but I guess I didn't do a good > enough job. I figured a popular manufacturer like ASUS would surely > be covered :-) No, there have been several reports by other users about this motherboard: http://www.google.fr/search?q=site%3Alists.lm-sensors.org+M2NPV-VM > (...) > If it really is using the IT8716F, then I think I read something somewhere > that this chip is not really supported yet, and a kernel patch was > required. Is that right? Depends on what kernel version you're using. I added support for the IT8716F in 2.6.19. For 2.6.17 and 2.6.18, there are kernel patches. -- Jean Delvare
