Hi Dean, On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:02:45 -0700, Dean Loros wrote: > OK Jean--- > > ran check---results. > (...) > Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. > Just press ENTER to continue: > > Driver `w83627ehf' (should be inserted): > Detects correctly: > * ISA bus, address 0x290 > Chip `Winbond W83627DHG Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9) > > Driver `coretemp' (should be inserted): > Detects correctly: > * Chip `Intel Core family thermal sensor' (confidence: 9) Good, no longer suggests the lm78. Thanks for testing. > dean at linux:~/Desktop$ modprobe i2c-dev > dean at linux:~/Desktop$ i2cdump 1 0x49 > No size specified (using byte-data access) > Error: Could not open file `/dev/i2c-1': Permission denied > Run as root? > dean at linux:~/Desktop$ sudo i2cdump 1 0x49 > No size specified (using byte-data access) > WARNING! This program can confuse your I2C bus, cause data loss and worse! > I will probe file /dev/i2c-1, address 0x49, mode byte > Continue? [Y/n] y > 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f 0123456789abcdef > 00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > 40: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ > f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 8d 00 00 ff ff ff ff .........?...... Hmm, I don't know what it is, but it doesn't look like a hardware monitoring chip for sure. > Left lm78 unloaded--what next? I am out of ideas, sorry. -- Jean Delvare