Hi Jeff, On Mon, 23 May 2011 09:15:50 -0500, Jeff Rickman wrote: > On 5/22/2011 3:26 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Hi Harry, hi Jeff, > > > > I just updated the driver at: > > http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/misc/emc6w201/ > > > > Changes in this version: > > * All limits can be changed. > > > > Basically this means you can now add "set" statements to your > > configuration file to adjust the limits as needed. If I remember > > correctly, voltage as well as high temperature limits were already good > > from the BIOS so you shouldn't have to change them. Fan limits were > > pretty low so you may want to adjust them, same for low temperature > > limits. > > > > Beware though: the monitoring chip may be configured and wired to take > > action on out-of-limits events. The low temperature limits may have > > been disabled by Dell on purpose, so that temperature alarms can only > > reflect over-temperature conditions and appropriate action can be > > taken (e.g. speeding up all fans, beeping or shutting the system down.) > > So you should be prudent when changing the limits. > > > > Feedback welcome. I intend to prepare a patch based on this version of > > the driver and submit it for inclusion in the upstream kernel. > > No issues at all with setting "min" and "max" limits on voltages. I used > the customary +/- 10 percent limits. > > No issues setting "min" value of "0" on temperatures; defaults were > negative values in some cases. Setting a "min" value between 10 and 20 > would be more reasonable for most PCs. > > I did not try to set limits on fans, but I suspect they would work ;-) Great, thanks for the test report. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
