Jean Delvare wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:32:51 +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: >> I am running Fedora 8 on a Gigabyte m56s-s3 board with an AMD X2 BE-2350. >> Running sensors gives me: >> >> # sensors >> k8temp-pci-00c3 >> Adapter: PCI adapter >> temp1: -9?C >> temp2: -20?C >> temp3: -18?C >> temp4: -14?C >> >> it8716-isa-0290 (.....) >> in5: +3.18 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V) >> in6: +0.10 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +4.08 V) >> 5VSB: +4.92 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +6.85 V) >> VBat: +3.07 V >> fan1: 805 RPM (min = 0 RPM) >> fan2: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM) >> temp1: +38?C (low = +127?C, high = +127?C) sensor = thermistor >> temp2: +35?C (low = +127?C, high = +127?C) sensor = thermistor >> temp3: +25?C (low = +127?C, high = +127?C) sensor = diode >> vid: +1.000 V (yes, throttled down) >> >> As you can see the k8temp info is slightly off-target. >> Is this a known issue? How could it be corrected? > > The rumor says that most recent K8 CPUs have broken thermal sensors and > there's nothing you can do about that. My hope is that we can blacklist > them in the k8temp driver directly, but I don't know which models are > affected exactly. No software compensation possible? >> What are in5 and in6 on this board? > > It's motherboard-specific, so we can't tell for sure. in6 is too low to > be anything real, so my guess is that it isn't wired at all (so you can > add "ignore in6" in your configuration file. in5 seems to be real, it > could be 3VSB. Only the motherboard manufacturer can tell for sure. I will ask Gigabyte support. >> What are temp2 and temp3? > > Did temp3 ever change? Yes. > Gigabyte are famous for their thermal sensors > that read 25 degrees C all the time (even though there are typically > thermistors, not thermal diodes.) These are unconnected thermal inputs > which you can just ignore. When temp3 is changed to thermistor it reads 89 degrees versis 24 as diode. (temp1/2 are 34 now) > This leaves temp1 and temp2 for the CPU and system temperatures, or > vice-versa. I'll fidn out which is which. > If you come up with a good configuration file for that board, please > submit it and we'll add it to our collection. It will still be part guesswork but I'll let you know. Udo
