On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Jürgen Fuchsberger < juergen.fuchsberger@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 02/13/2014 08:32 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Hi Jürgen, > > > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 07:39:04 +0100, Jürgen Fuchsberger wrote: > >>>> The board supports IPMI. I would guess that the errors happen when the > >>>> native driver and IPMI attempt to access the SMBus at the same time. > >>> > >>> Yes, that would explanin the problem. > >> > >>>> As usual, my recommendation is to either use IPMI or native drivers but > >>>> not mix. > >>> > >>> Agreed. > >> > >> OK, how can I choose which driver to use? > > > > In your case, the native drivers are i2c-nforce2, dme1737 and lm85, and > > the native tool is "sensors". The IPMI driver would be ipmi-si if I > > remember correctly, and its tool is "ipmitool" or equivalent (there are > > several IPMI packages out there, I don't know which ones are available > > to you.) If you have a BMC card in the machine, that card would be > > accessing the monitoring chips over IPMI as well so it will happen even > > without any driver loaded. > > > > If you want to use IPMI (and if you have a BMC this is the only safe > > option), blacklist i2c-nforce2 and delete your lm_sensors configuration > > file (typically /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors on a sysconfig-based system, > > might be different on your distributions, e.g. on Debian you'd just > > delete the relevant modules from /etc/modules.) Then load ipmi-si and > > use ipmitool or whatever IPMI tool you have installed. > > OK, where should I blacklist i2c-nforce2? > > impitool does not work: > wegc203094:/etc# ipmitool sensor > Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No > such file or directory Did you try to load the ipmi driver(s)? What do you get in the logs? ...Juerg > Get Device ID command failed > Unable to open SDR for reading > > Best, > Juergen > > > > _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
