If VBAT monitoring is disabled, enable it. Bug reported on the lm-sensors trac system: http://lm-sensors.org/ticket/2282 This is the exact same patch that was applied to the w83627ehf driver 6 months ago. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> --- Carlos, could you please test and/or review this patch? drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.24-rc6.orig/drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.c 2007-12-26 14:39:06.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.24-rc6/drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.c 2007-12-26 18:53:51.000000000 +0100 @@ -1515,6 +1515,11 @@ static void __devinit w83627hf_init_devi (w83627hf_read_value(data, W83781D_REG_CONFIG) & 0xf7) | 0x01); + + /* Enable VBAT monitoring if needed */ + tmp = w83627hf_read_value(data, W83781D_REG_VBAT); + if (!(tmp & 0x01)) + w83627hf_write_value(data, W83781D_REG_VBAT, tmp | 0x01); } static void w83627hf_update_fan_div(struct w83627hf_data *data) -- Jean Delvare