On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 15:49 -0500, David Kremer wrote: > Hello. > > I want to expose a problem I have met with pwmconfig. > > With ubuntu 10.11, the pwmconfig complains there is no > available system for monitoring the cpu fan. > > With the last kernel in Archlinux, I have the same problem. > With the LTS kernel in archlinux (3.0), the problem > disappears, everything works fine. > > I cannot understand why with the 3.0 kernel, I have a bug in ubuntu > and not in archlinux (because the API should not to be broken). > > In archlinux it is the two following versions : > > local/linux-lts 3.0.17-2 > local/linux 3.2.2-1 (base) > > In ubuntu 10.11, the kernel is : > 3.0.0-15-generic-pae #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 20 17:07:31 UTC 2012 i686 > i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > When it fails, it seems that the coretemp interface is loaded, and I can > see the cpu temp > in both cases (when fancontrol fails and when it doesn't fail), but only > the cpu temp. > > When it doesn't fail, I have another interface which manage all the > sensors of my motherboard, > including the control of fans (I can have up to 4 fans controlled). I am > going to be a bit > approximative, but the interface being loaded when it works is called > "netxxxx" where the "xxxx" > is some number. I could tell you more about this point the next time I > boot the archlinux LTS kernel. > > My motherboard is H67 chipset : > > http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8H67M_LE/ > > I hope this helps to solve my problem > There is a bug in the upstream driver affecting the number of fans detected for NCT6776F. You can try a possible fix by loading and installing the driver from https://github.com/groeck/w83627ehf/archives/testing. No idea if that helps, though. The bug has always been there, so I have no explanation why it might have worked with archlinux 3.0 LTS. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
