On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Christopher Hogan<chris.c.hogan at gmail.com> wrote: > Loading w83627hf produces the following error: > w83627hf: Found W83627HF chip at 0x290 > ACPI: I/O resource w83627hf [0x295-0x296] conflicts with ACPI region > IP__ [0x295-0x296] > ACPI: Device needs an ACPI driver > > I have ACPI compiled into kernel 2.6.29-gentoo-r3. > > I googled a bit and found kernel bug: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13508 > > Am I correct that an ACPI compatible driver for this chip doesn't > exist What motherboard is this? For ASUS there's asus_atk0110. > and that I should disable part/all of ACPI in order to have full > access to my sensors? Disabling ACPI on a modern system is not an option. You can override that check with acpi_enforce_resources=lax (kernel option), but - as the message says - both ACPI subsystem and the native hwmon driver might try to touch the chip at the same time. Luca
