[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Re: m57sli-s4 and i2c
Ward Vandewege
ward at gnu.org
Sat Apr 28 22:43:59 CEST 2007
Hi ST,
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:43:56AM +0200, ST wrote:
> Mh, i just tried it and doesn't work for me :-(. Probably i am to tired and
> did a stupid mistake. But well i still can't load the it87 module. But my
> tree has the changes in superio.c. Hints are welcome :-). Probably im am
> missing a kernel driver or so?
I suspect you don't have the other patch that was submitted under r2620 - the
changes to Config.lb for the m57sli-s4 ?
> Ward i have also the problem that i don't see any classic PCI cards on my
> machine (with linuxbios, works with stock bios), can you confirm this? I see
> all the nvidia stuff and the video card though.
I'll look into that next week, when I'm back at the office.
> I have written a small c program which reads out the values of the ec
> controller. It works for me under stock bios but gives "ff" on all reads
> under linuxbios :-(. Ward it would be nice if you could try it on your
> machine... and yes i was a little bit off with my statement can be take right
> of the datasheet. The program needs to be run as root or gives an access
> error.
Sure, I had figured that much; my perl script still didn't work. I'll give
your program a go and get back to you next week.
> Attached is also the output of the program on my machine under i386 and amd64.
> Keep in mind that some of the registers are fan and temperature input so they
> differ.
Very helpful, thanks!
Thanks,
Ward.
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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator
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