On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 14:41 -0400, Sebl wrote: > > Yes I'm 100% certain because I can read the top marking. It says: SMSC > EMC2103. So there is no! doubt. But I can send you pictures, if you want. > Hardwaremonitoring (Vcore, fan, ...) is possible with windows, so there > should be the possibility to monitor it with linux, too. > I can send you lspci later, but as far as I remember it only listed the > intel chipset drivers. > hp_wmi and hp_accel modules are automatically loaded @ startup. > > Please don't top-post. Maybe you have the EMC2103 on your board, connected to one of its I2C busses. But it is not the chip detected on the LPC bus. Guenter > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Jean Delvare [mailto:khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Gesendet: Montag, 28. Mai 2012 09:02 > An: sebl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Steve Glendinning; Juerg Haefliger > Betreff: Re: Problems with SMSC EMC2103-2 > > On Sun, 27 May 2012 23:39:23 +0200, sebl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi, > > > > somehow lm-sensors does not seem to recognize the EMC2103-2 chip in my > > notebook (HP 2530p). When i run sensors-detect it says: > > > > #Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): y #Probing for > > Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f #Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... > > No !#Trying family `SMSC'... Yes !#Found unknown chip with ID 0x4501 > > #Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f #Trying family `National > > Semiconductor/ITE'... No #Trying family `SMSC'... No #Trying family > > `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'... No #Trying family `ITE'... No > > > > "Found unknown chip with ID 0x4501" But I'm 100% certain that it is > > the > > EMC2103-2 chip which is described as support in the documentation. > > How are you 100% certain? Did you read the top marking of the chip? > > Me, I am 100% certain that the above is NOT an EMC2103-2, because it is > connected to the LPC bus while the EMC2103-2 is an SMBus chip. Can't be the > same chip. > > The chip above is likely to be a HP-specific Super-I/O chip, maybe Juerg > (Cc'd) can identify it. There is no guarantee that it includes hardware > monitoring features though. > > > I can > > load the driver with modprobe emc2103, but nothing happens. > > This is expected for all SMBus-based drivers, devices can appear afterward > so drivers never refuse to load. > > > lm-sensors > > only detects the temperature-sensors correctly, not the fan speed or > > anything else. Are there known problems with this chip? Or is somenone > > successfully running lm-sensors with EMC2103-2? > > Driver was contributed by SMSC themselves (Steve Cc'd), I'm fairly certain > that they tested their code. > > What could happen is that the SMBus controller to which the EMC2103-2 chip > is connected, is not properly supported on your system. Maybe it is a very > recent chip we don't support yet, or maybe ACPI gets in the way and prevents > the driver from binding to the chip. I'd like to see the complete output of > sensors-detect and lspci. > > Note BTW that it is very frequent for laptops to not include complete > hardware monitoring chips. Furthermore, the monitoring chip is usually > hidden behind ACPI so all you get is the limited ACPI thermal zone > interface, or some proprietary interface. You may want to give a try to the > hp_accel and hp-wmi modules for laptop-specific features support. > > -- > Jean Delvare > > > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
