On Sat, 31 May 2008 22:03:39 +0200, Bruno Pr?mont <bonbons at linux-vserver.org> wrote: >On a Commell LE-365 I get readings for fan speed that are broken about >10% of the time. >The board has a Winbond W83697 chip (I can't check the exact chip name >on the board as it's hidden by a heatsink, the photo from Commell, as >as well as the manual indicate a HG, the kenrel reports: > [ 3.572831] w83627hf: Found W83697HF chip at 0x290 > [ 3.572831] WDT driver for the Winbond(TM) W83627HF/THF/HG Super I/O chip initialising. > [ 3.572831] w83627hf/thf/hg WDT: Watchdog already running. Resetting timeout to 60 sec > [ 3.572831] w83627hf/thf/hg WDT: initialized. timeout=60 sec (nowayout=0) >) > >Below a sample (reformatted) output of > while sleep 1; do > date; > cat /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/device/fan1_input; > done Try slowing down your polling, change to sleep 5. See if the problem goes away. Grant.
