On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:18:56AM -0700, camden lindsay wrote:
> Hello-
> I've had this motherboard since January 2011 had never gotten fan control
> to work. It seems to be either a driver or hardware implementation issue.
> It doesn't appear to have the atk0110 acpi methods of hardware control.
> When i try to echo any numbers into pwm_{1..3} they do not actually write
> to the ?file?/?register?
>
> I hadn't looked too deeply into it, so as to understand the ACPI/ATK0110 vs
> legacy W83667HG-B control until recently. About as far as i had gotten
> previously was to read http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/AsusFormulaHacking.
> Recently started looking further into it for a variety of reasons; I am
> now sure that my board does not have any ATK0110 devices on it:
>
>
> Details:
> Kernel information
> Linux BigBox 3.4.9-gentoo #1 SMP Sat Oct 20 21:41:06 PDT 2012 x86_64
> Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> Modprobe of atk shows nothing in dmesg
> BigBox w83627ehf.656 # modprobe asus-atk0110
>
> dylan@BigBox ~/My_Utils/acpi $ lsmod | grep asus
> asus_atk0110 8614 0
>
> BigBox w83627ehf.656 # dmesg | tail -3
> [ 51.000276] w83627ehf: Found W83667HG-B chip at 0x290
> [ 57.806564] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> [ 69.009033] netlink: 12 bytes leftover after parsing attributes.
>
>
> dsdt.dsl does not have any of the 'key' atk stuff in it from the above
> mentioned webpage:
> dylan@BigBox ~/My_Utils/acpi $ grep -i -e asoc -e vbuf -e v500 -e v12v
> dsdt.dsl
> dylan@BigBox ~/My_Utils/acpi $
>
>
> I don't have no-apci on my kernel command line, there are no conflicts
> listed for acpi in dmesg, and the drivers for the sensor chip load happily
> dylan@BigBox ~/My_Utils/acpi $ cat /proc/cmdline
> root=/dev/md3
>
> dylan@BigBox ~/My_Utils/acpi $ dmesg | grep w83627ehf
> [ 51.000276] w83627ehf: Found W83667HG-B chip at 0x290
> dylan@BigBox ~/My_Utils/acpi $
>
> dylan@BigBox ~/My_Utils/acpi $ dmesg | grep conflict
> dylan@BigBox ~/My_Utils/acpi $
>
>
> dylan@BigBox ~/My_Utils/acpi $ sensors w83667hg-isa-0290
> w83667hg-isa-0290
> Adapter: ISA adapter
> Vcore: +0.89 V (min = +0.60 V, max = +1.50 V)
> in1: +1.73 V (min = +1.50 V, max = +1.88 V)
> AVCC: +3.38 V (min = +2.98 V, max = +3.63 V)
> +3.3V: +3.38 V (min = +2.98 V, max = +3.63 V)
> in4: +1.67 V (min = +1.50 V, max = +1.83 V)
> in5: +1.69 V (min = +1.76 V, max = +2.04 V) ALARM
> in6: +1.49 V (min = +1.34 V, max = +1.65 V)
> 3VSB: +3.38 V (min = +2.98 V, max = +3.63 V)
> Vbat: +3.31 V (min = +2.70 V, max = +3.30 V) ALARM
> Rear_Fan: 3590 RPM (min = 888 RPM, div = 8)
> CPU_Fan: 1854 RPM (min = 2678 RPM, div = 8) ALARM
> HD_Fan0: 3590 RPM (min = 1298 RPM, div = 8)
> HD_Fan1: 3668 RPM (min = 865 RPM, div = 8)
> fan5: 0 RPM (min = 10546 RPM, div = 128) ALARM
> PECI Agent 1: +6.0°C (high = +60.0°C, hyst = +58.0°C) sensor = Intel
> PECI
> PECI Agent 1: +6.0°C (high = +89.0°C, hyst = +88.0°C) sensor = Intel
> PECI
> SYSTIN: +22.5°C (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C) sensor =
> thermistor
> CPUTIN: -54.0°C
> cpu0_vid: +0.000 V
> intrusion0: OK
>
>
> In Bios the fans are set to 'no control / full speed' (i've tried in other
> modes too)
>
> Now, as root.. i can change the settings in pwm_enable (following doc for
> kernel driver for values)
> BigBox w83627ehf.656 # head *_enable
> ==> pwm1_enable <==
> 1
> ==> pwm2_enable <==
> 1
> ==> pwm3_enable <==
> 1
> BigBox w83627ehf.656 # for i in $(seq 3); do echo 2 >pwm${i}_enable; done
> BigBox w83627ehf.656 # head *_enable
> ==> pwm1_enable <==
> 2
> ==> pwm2_enable <==
> 2
> ==> pwm3_enable <==
> 2
>
Should be 1 for manual mode. Supposedly this is the only mode where you can
write into the pwm attribute.
> As root I can also change the values for pwm_mode
> BigBox w83627ehf.656 # head *_mode
> ==> pwm1_mode <==
> 1
> ==> pwm2_mode <==
> 1
> ==> pwm3_mode <==
> 1
> BigBox w83627ehf.656 # for i in $(seq 3); do echo 0 >pwm${i}_mode; done
> BigBox w83627ehf.656 # head *_mode
> ==> pwm1_mode <==
> 0
> ==> pwm2_mode <==
> 0
> ==> pwm3_mode <==
> 0
>
In general you don't want to change pwmX_mode, since it changes the mode from
pwm output (1) to DC output (0).
>
> But i cannot change the pwm{1..3} values themselves..
> BigBox w83627ehf.656 # head pwm{1..3}
> ==> pwm1 <==
> 255
> ==> pwm2 <==
> 255
> ==> pwm3 <==
> 255
> BigBox w83627ehf.656 # for i in $(seq 3); do echo 0 >pwm${i}; done
> BigBox w83627ehf.656 # head pwm{1..3}
> ==> pwm1 <==
> 255
> ==> pwm2 <==
> 255
> ==> pwm3 <==
> 255
>
>
> There don't appear to be any errors, etc.
>
> According to some threads in a bug on speedfan, there are some major
> problem with the W83667HG-B datasheet -- but i can't figure out how to
> contact/ask for what the bugs were...
> http://www.bugtrack.almico.com/view.php?id=1528#c5586
>
Unfortunately, the datasheet problem is not explained in detail.
Guenter
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