Re: Supermicro X7DBU configuration

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 04:47:58PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Le Wednesday 17 December 2014 à 06:43 -0800, Guenter Roeck a écrit :
> > On 12/17/2014 02:08 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > This chip is missing from the output of "sensors" below. You need to
> > > figure out why. Is the w83793 kernel module available on your system?
> > > Is it loaded? If not, what happens if you try to load it manually? Any
> > > error message in the kernel log? The fans are certainly connected to
> > > that chip.
> > 
> > Hardware monitoring might be disabled for this chip. I have seen this
> > with other Supermicro boards; on mine, for example, they use the second
> > SuperIO chip only for additional serial ports. The kernel log might
> > give a hint if that is the case.
> 
> I doubt this is the case here, as the W83793G is a dedicated hardware
> monitoring chip. There's no point in putting it on the board if they
> don't use the feature.
> 
> > Another option might be that the missing chip is the one used for hardware
> > monitoring but its register space is reserved by ACPI. That would explain
> > why the chip listed below doesn't report much useful data. Again, the
> > kernel log should give a hint.
> 
> I don't think this can happen for an SMBus device. If the SMBus
> controller had an ACPI I/O resource conflict, sensors-detect would not
> have been able to scan it. And there is no notion of I2C/SMBus resource
> space in ACPI.
> 
Good point. Maybe the w83793 driver is simply not loaded.

Guenter

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