Re: Sensors on Asus P2B-F?

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

At 9:43 Uhr -0800 03.11.2009, Paul Goyette wrote:
> Just curious, can you try 'mbmon -S' to see if that's how it is
> getting its data?

Looks very similar, apart from Temp1:

# mbmon -S

Temp.= 33.0, 33.0,  0.0; Rot.= 3341,    0,    0
Vcore = 2.06, 2.51; Volt. = 3.65, 5.05, 11.80, -11.29, -5.14
^C
# envstat
              Current  CritMax  CritMin  CritCap     Unit
[lm0]
  VCore A:      2.064                                   V
  VCore B:      2.512                                   V
    +3.3V:      3.648                                   V
      +5V:      5.053                                   V
     +12V:     11.795                                   V
     -12V:    -11.126                                   V
      -5V:     -5.153                                   V
    Temp0:     33.000                                degC
    Temp1:      0.000                                degC
    Temp2:      0.000                                degC
     Fan0:       3341                                 RPM
     Fan1:        N/A
     Fan2:        N/A
#


> I'm suspecting that there's some contention between the piixpm i2c
> driver and ACPI's SMBus accessing the same bus.  This can cause all
> sorts of issues.
>
> I've written a ACPI SMBus i2c driver to use ACPI access directly,
> but it requires manually disabling the "native" i2c drivers since
> there's no clean way to prevent simultaneous access.  Perhaps you
> might want to try my driver to see if you get more consistent and
> reliable results?  (See attachment.)

I'll give that a try tomorrow.

        hauke

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