Re: VIA Epia M10000 & VT1211 hardware sensors
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:00:18 +0200, Matthijs <vanaalten@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> 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?
No suggestions, anyone?
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Matthijs
vanaalten@hotmail.com
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