Re: More on the 760MP

Willem Riede (wriede@home.com)
Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:49:13 -0400


I'm not having much luck with this :-(

I also have a Tyan Tiger MP, and have built a 2.4.10-ac12 based kernel
for it. Actually, I modified the Rawhide kernel SRPM to use linux-2.4.10
and the ac12 patch, as I run ext3 and software raid installed by RedHat's
Roswell beta, and I need to stay compatible with that; then made and
installed the athlon-smp RPM.

It contains 2.6.1 for i2c, and I generated the patch for lm_sensors
2.6.1 to replace the older patch for lm_sensors in the SRPM.

The i2c-amd756 module hangs my kernel too, but you seem to have it
work without it? I don't get anything detected without i2c-amd756.
This is what the log messages say (but I have to reboot to read them):

Oct 14 16:17:16 linnie kernel: i2c-amd756.o version 2.6.1 (20010830)
Oct 14 16:17:16 linnie kernel: i2c-dev.o: Registered 'SMBus AMD7X6 adapter
at 80e0' as minor 1
Oct 14 16:17:16 linnie kernel: i2c-core.o: client [W83782D chip] registered
to adapter [SMBus AMD7X6 adapter at 80e0](pos. 0).
Oct 14 16:17:16 linnie kernel: i2c-core.o: client [W83782D subclient]
registered to adapter [SMBus AMD7X6 adapter at 80e0](pos. 1).
Oct 14 16:17:16 linnie kernel: i2c-core.o: client [W83782D subclient]
registered to adapter [SMBus AMD7X6 adapter at 80e0](pos. 2).

Or is it this module (i2c-amd756) that you say must be included in the
kernel to make 'it' work (English is so ambiguous :-))?

One more question if you don't mind: do you (still) have to first
read the sensors in the BIOS before booting? If I do that, for some
reason, I don't get my grub boot screen after exiting setup, instead
the board tries to boot off the lan; I ctrl-atl-del out of that, and
then things are back to normal, but that soft reset probably undid
whatever reading the sensors in the bios changed :-(
Any other settings in the bios that matter?

Thanks, Willem Riede.

On 2001.10.09 18:20 German Gomez Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, German Gomez Garcia wrote:
> > > On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, German Gomez Garcia wrote:
> > > > > it appears in the /proc/cmdline that message stills apears.
> > > > > Also I'm unable to get correct readings with lm_sensors (CVS),
> I've been
> > > > > enable to detect the w83781d chip using the i2c-amd756 SMbus but
> half of
> > > > > the times the kernel hangs up when loading this module.
> > > > 1) You need to enable ACPI in bios for sensors to work.
> > > What about the kernel? must I enable it there too?
> >
> > No. You don't need it in kernel.
>
> Well, I must include it in the kernel to make it work, if I don't
> it detects a w83627hf instead of the w83782d, and it is unable to set it
> up on the bus:
>
> i2c-proc.o version 2.6.1 (20010825)
> w83781d.o version 2.6.1 (20010830)
> i2c-core.o: driver W83781D sensor driver registered.
> i2c-core.o: client [W83627HF chip] registered to adapter [SMBus AMD7X6
> adapter at 80e0](pos. 0).
> i2c-core.o: client [W83627HF subclient] registered to adapter [SMBus
> AMD7X6 adapter at 80e0](pos. 1).
> i2c-core.o: client [W83627HF subclient] registered to adapter [SMBus
> AMD7X6 adapter at 80e0](pos. 2).
> i2c-core.o: client [W83782D chip] registered to adapter [SMBus AMD7X6
> adapter at 80e0](pos. 3).
> w83781d.o: Subclient 0 registration at address 0x49 failed.
>
> then I get incorrect readings for the every sensors 1 goes up to
> 77º, 2 goes down to 12º, and 3 goes really down to 0º
>
> If I include it in the kernel I get the following:
>
> i2c-proc.o version 2.6.1 (20010825)
> w83781d.o version 2.6.1 (20010830)
> i2c-core.o: driver W83781D sensor driver registered.
> i2c-core.o: client [W83782D chip] registered to adapter [SMBus AMD7X6
> adapter at 80e0](pos. 0).
> i2c-core.o: client [W83782D subclient] registered to adapter [SMBus
> AMD7X6 adapter at 80e0](pos. 1).
> i2c-core.o: client [W83782D subclient] registered to adapter [SMBus
> AMD7X6 adapter at 80e0](pos. 2).
>
> And after changing the type of the sensor to 2 (3904 transistor)
> it works perfectly, no temp offset, at least it reports the same than the
> BIOS (well I cannot be sure of that, but it doesn't differ more than one
> or two degrees).
>
> Yeaahh!! that's outstanding online support, anybody still think
> that paid support is better than friendly penguins? :-D
> I'll start burn-testing this box now that I have some way to
> check temperature.
>
> Regards and great thanks!
>
> - german
>
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