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Thank you Jean, This has worked, apologies for not finding those threads you provided links for. When I searched the archive, the title ' insane readings on Asus A7M266' didn't seem applicable to my problem. I would like to add a link for the benefit of others on how to amend the boot command line for Ubuntu: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1715687 regards Alex N > Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:26:59 +0200 > From: khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To: eckeroo8@xxxxxxxxxxx > CC: lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: A7M266 ubuntu > > Hi Eck, > > On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:30:46 +0000, eck naysmith wrote: > > After running sensors-detect, I have not been able to get lm-sensors to work with my system.: > > > > Linux kernel: 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:40:58 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux > > > > > > > > ubuntu version: 10.10 > > > > A7M266 BIOS 1007 1900+ AMD palamino processor 1GB PC2100 DDR > > > > To being with, I ran sensor-detect. This amended my /etc/modules file so that the following lines were added: > > > > # Generated by sensors-detect on Sat Mar 26 19:31:08 2011 > > # Chip drivers > > via686a > > I am almost certain that this is wrong and you don't need the via686a > driver on this old board, but the w83781d driver for Asus' proprietary > AS99127F monitoring ASIC. > > > after a reboot, the command 'sensors' fails to detect: > > > > No sensors found! > > Make sure you loaded all the kernel drivers you need. > > Try sensors-detect to find out which these are. > > > > After a google, I found this thread: > > > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1485151&highlight=via686a > > > > But this failed as well > > > > I love this motherboard, and I would really like to monitor the cpu temperature. > > The problem was already discussed and solved on this list 2 months ago: > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2011-January/031108.html > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2011-January/031111.html > > The bottom line is that you have to add acpi_enforce_resources=no to > the boot command line (in lilo or grub configuration) to get sensors to > work again on this board. > > -- > Jean Delvare > http://khali.linux-fr.org/wishlist.html |
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