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steven james pyro at linuxlabs.com
Sat Apr 19 07:48:00 CEST 2003


Greetings,

The sensors in the sis950 (superio) have to be turned on. Apparently, the
AMIBIOS does that, so lm_sensors doesn't try to initialize it. The
standalone supermon driver I wrote for that does the initialization
itself.

G'day,
sjames



On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, ron minnich wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Alexander Amelkin wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Well... on sis630 (pcchips 787cl+) lm_sensors don't show anything with
> > linuxbios, while with AMIBIOS they do show lots of things.
> 
> that's interesting. we need to figure this one out.
> 
> 
> > A little off-topic... I was quite amazed when I found that on EPIA
> > ESP5000 there is a monitoring chip detected by lm_sensors, but no actual
> > sensors present. :) Anyone knows if that is really so, or is that just
> > a bug of lm_sensors?
> > 
> 
> we've seen our share of bugs with lm_sensors.
> 
> ron
> 
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