On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 16:47 -0400, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:46:48 -0400, Graham Medlin wrote: > > Have a Dell PowerEdge 600sc running Ubuntu 12.04 Server. Hate to > > Which kernel is that? > Should be 3.2. Guenter > > retire the golden egg laying goose, its solid. The fan is running at > > 100%, sounds like a 747, so I wanted to check it with lm_sensors... > > > > Running "sensors-detect" yields no for everything except: > > ... > > 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'... Yes > > Found `Nat. Semi. PC8741x Super IO' > > (no hardware monitoring capabilities) > > ... > > ... > > Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? (YES/no): y > > Using driver `i2c-piix4' for device 0000:00:0f.0: ServerWorks > > CSB6 South Bridge > > Sorry, no sensors were detected. > > ... > > > > The CSB6 bus is listed as supported, but I haven't been able to track > > down what the sensors are. > > This chip is how you may be able to access sensor chips, it is not a > sensor chip itself. > > > Back when this was a Windows machine, I ran Everest Home, and it was > > able to read everything, and claimed LM81 and MAX1617A chips for > > whatever its worth... > > Good news is that both are supported under Linux, so if that's really > what your system has, there is hope. > > > Googling found exactly one reference claiming this was possible on a > > linux machine: > > http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2005-July/021985.html > > This is a pretty old post, not sure everything said there still applies. > > > > > I tried with no luck: > > modprobe -r i2c-piix4 > > modprobe i2c-piix4 > > The post said to pass force=1, but you did not. > > > I'm not sure if its related, but "i2cdetect -l" returns nothing. > > Do you have i2c-dev loaded? i2cdetect won't work without it. If you do > and "i2cdetect -l" still doesn't list the SMBus, please check the > kernel log when you try to (re)load i2c-piix4. > > > Below is part of the output of "lspci -nn -vv" > > 00:0f.0 Host bridge [0600]: Broadcom CSB6 South Bridge [1166:0203] (rev a0) > > Subsystem: Broadcom Device [1166:0201] > > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- > > ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- > > Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium > > >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx- > > Latency: 32 > > Kernel modules: i2c-piix4, sworks-agp > > Two drivers for the same device, looks wrong. You should try getting > rid of (via blacklisting) sworks-agp and see if it helps any. > _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
