On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:17:37PM +0200, Laine Stump wrote:
> At 05:50 PM 2/20/2003 +0000, Alaric B. Snell wrote:
> >You may have to explicitly compile it in. Check out the 'Hardware monitors'
> >section of your kernel config file:
> >
> ># LM7[89] and compatible hardware monitors
> >lm0     at isa? port 0x290              # other common ports: 0x280, 0x310
> >
> ># VIA VT82C686A hardware monitor
> >viapm*  at pci? dev ? function ?
> >viaenv* at viapm?
> >
> >I had no idea which chip my machine had so enabled both and it seems to 
> >work
> >fine!
> 
> I've had all of those in all my kernel configs for a couple years now, and 
> never encountered any problem on any machine. Is there a reason they aren't 
> enabled in GENERIC?

The lm0 isn't enabled by default because detection requires a write to the
specified I/O space.

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