On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:24:45 +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:38 AM, David Cussans > <David.Cussans@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Luca, > > Many thanks for your mail, and the information that where is an ACPI > > driver that should work. > > > > Alas, I am using Scientific Linux 5.4 ( a variant of RHEL 5.x ) which > > uses kernel version 2.6.18, where this driver isn't present. Although I am > > very keen to find out how hot the CPU is running I doubt I will have time to > > back-port the asus_atk0110 driver and I am reluctant to risk breaking a lot > > of other things by moving away from a locally supported platform. > > > > I don't really understand which firmware is using the hardware monitoring > > device (W83667HG-B ? ). > > ACPI (i.e. the your BIOS). Furthermore IIRC your board has an EC > (external controller - basically another chip running its own > firmware) which polls the hwmon chip on its own. > > > Forgive my confusion, but is it possible, even in > > theory, to write a user-space lm_sensors driver for this motherboard? > > You can't do that in userspace, but yorur chip should be supported by > w83627ehf in recent kernels, you can try and backport it (it should be > fairly self-contained, while asus_atk0110 requires modification in > core ACPI code). No, the W83667HG-B isn't supported yet. Still David can takes his chance and force W83667HG operation - at his own risks. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
