VIA Epia M10000 & VT1211 hardware sensors

[Matthijs <vanaalten@hotmail.com>]

I'm trying to get the temperature sensors working on my Debian Sarge
box. The hardware is a VIA Epia M10000 board running a custom compiled
2.6.8-16 kernel.

As far as I know, the device driver for the VT1211 chip is not
included in the 2.6.8 kernel, so I followed the instructions on
http://hem.bredband.net/ekmlar/vt1211.html (including adding the two
lines for Debian 2.6.8 kernels).

Everything, compiling and installing, went correctly - no strange
error messages or anything.

I've used modconf to configure the modules to be loaded and included
i2c-isa and vt1211. According to the above mentioned webpage, there
should be a directory 0-6000 under /sys/devices/platform/i2c-0, but
unfortunately:
ls -l /sys/devices/platform/i2c-0
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 Jul  9 00:05 detach_state
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 Jul  9 00:05 name
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    0 Jul  9 00:05 power

report from lsmod:
Module                  Size  Used by
vt1211                 23108  0
i2c_sensor              2880  1 vt1211
via_agp                 9056  1
agpgart                34600  1 via_agp
eth1394                21576  0
via_rhine              22120  0
mii                     5024  1 via_rhine
ohci1394               35492  0
ieee1394              111256  2 eth1394,ohci1394
i2c_isa                 1984  0
i2c_core               24176  3 vt1211,i2c_sensor,i2c_isa
snd_pcm_oss            55080  0
snd_mixer_oss          20096  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_via82xx            28644  0
snd_ac97_codec         69988  1 snd_via82xx
snd_pcm                98728  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx
snd_timer              25732  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11752  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         7968  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            25124  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8200  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    56388  9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,
                                snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,
                                snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
ipchains               57152  0
longhaul                8080  0
ide_cd                 42336  0
cdrom                  40700  1 ide_cd


So it looks like both modules vt1211 and i2c_isa are loaded (although
i2c_isa doesn't appear to be used), but the directory 0-6000 (supposed
hardware address of i2c) isn't created.

I've also tried sensors-detect. Final report:
Driver `eeprom' (should be inserted):
  Detects correctly:
  * Bus `SMBus Via Pro adapter at 0500'
    Busdriver `i2c-viapro', I2C address 0x50
    Chip `SPD EEPROM' (confidence: 8)

Driver `vt1211' (should be inserted):
  Detects correctly:
  * ISA bus address 0x6000 (Busdriver `i2c-isa')
    Chip `VT1211 Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9)

Any suggestions what I'm doing wrong here?
-- 
Matthijs
vanaalten@hotmail.com

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