Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756528AbZIUPHY (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:07:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756310AbZIUPHW (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:07:22 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f210.google.com ([209.85.218.210]:48625 "EHLO mail-bw0-f210.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756265AbZIUPHV convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:07:21 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=vfbKXqSELvROpRft9w+BhuBNm4HJ7QCR3KQoL0kWKLEbLrBqvO7P+sf25iWa0ZE3FP ZwqBjgTQ/D/Xz1JatD0fYGRBx3zRZQ8gVUfqXqA3LzMlqC+OoBYw7l5TE1SqIYzbuXUv dMVU54Pm93skdnZjUTPP6vD9ZVSSSv4V77WiQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200909211102.25354.gene.heskett@verizon.net> References: <200909202035.54220.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <68676e00909210243h7aab926cr225779826743ed33@mail.gmail.com> <200909211102.25354.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:07:23 +0200 Message-ID: <68676e00909210807h71171ae6l59eb4e8eb972c161@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] it87 sensors need an ACPI driver (2.6.31) From: Luca Tettamanti To: Gene Heskett Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2132 Lines: 52 On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 21 September 2009, Luca Tettamanti wrote: >>On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Gene Heskett > wrote: >>> On Sunday 20 September 2009, Luca Tettamanti wrote: >>>>On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Gene Heskett >>> >>> wrote: >>>>> Jumping in the middle of this, I am another that it87 doesn't work very >>>>> well for,  ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe board. >>>> >>>>Please define "doesn't work well". asus_atk0110 should handle that >>>>board. In case of troubles enable CONFIG_HWMON_DEBUG_CHIP, load >>>>asus_atk0110 and post the content of the kernel log. >>> >>> With that CONFIG_HWMON_DEBUG_CHIP enabled, dmesg (attached) looks semi- >>> kosher, but neither gkrellm nor sensors can show me data until it87 is >>> loaded.  I unloaded it87 and reloaded it several times just now. >>>  Something funkity someplace...  Is there a new application I need to dl >>> and install? >> >>You probably need to upgrade the lm-sensors package. Version 3.1.1 has >>support for ACPI devices. >> > Its the latest in the F10 repos, Luca.  I have these: > > lm_sensors-3.0.2-1.fc10.i386 > lm_sensors-sensord-3.0.2-1.fc10.i386 Too old. >  I also note that while asus_atk0110 is loaded, it has no link count in an > lsmod output.  This has little or nothing to do with the lm_sensors version, > when the kernel itself (2.6.31 final) doesn't get any real data.  Or can it? Usage count is zero because nothing is using the driver ;-) As the dmesg shows the driver is loaded and has correctly identified the sensors. > I've stumbled around is the /sys/fs tree looking for data, but wasn't able to > do anything but get stuck in a re-entrant loop, that is a bowl of spaghetti, > well stirred. You'll find the relevant sysfs entries under /sys/class/hwmon/ Luca -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/