No sensors found!

[ticket]

I have Asus M2N-E and Ubuntu 6.06 with lm-sensors from the Ubuntu package 1:2.9.2-5Ubuntu3

I installed the package, and sensors detect found an IT8712F
I used mkdev.sh to create the devices
I made the required additions to /etc/modules, and lsmod shows:

it87                   26916  0
hwmon_vid               4096  1 it87
i2c_isa                 7424  1 it87
i2c_core               26624  9 i2c_acpi_ec,it87,i2c_isa,tuner,tvaudio,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,nvidia

but sensors -s gives "No sensors found!"

Have I done something stupid, or will lm-sensors not work with this MB?
Thanks.

- Richard Kimber

[khali]

First of all, if your system uses udev, you should no more need to create the device files manually.

I suspect this is a misdetection and you don't have an IT8712F. Please download and try  the latest version of sensors-detect. I think it will find an ITE IT8716F or IT8718F instead.

Support for the IT8716F and IT8718F is not yet available in vanilla kernels, but we are working on it.

[ticket]

Replying to khali:

First of all, if your system uses udev, you should no more need to create the device files manually. I suspect this is a misdetection and you don't have an IT8712F. Please download and try  the latest version of sensors-detect. I think it will find an ITE IT8716F or IT8718F instead. Support for the IT8716F and IT8718F is not yet available in vanilla kernels, but we are working on it.

Yes, the new sensors-detect gives:-

#----cut here---- # I2C module options alias char-major-89 i2c-dev #----cut here----

To load everything that is needed, add this to some /etc/rc* file:

#----cut here---- # I2C adapter drivers modprobe i2c-isa # Chip drivers # Warning: the required module k8temp is not currently installed on your system. # For status of 2.6 kernel ports see  http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/SupportedDevices # If driver is built-in to the kernel, or unavailable, comment out the following line. modprobe k8temp modprobe it87 # sleep 2 # optional /usr/local/bin/sensors -s # recommended #----cut here----

and seems to find IT8716F. Thanks. Any idea which kernel will support this?

[khali]

Replying to ticket:

and seems to find IT8716F. Thanks. Any idea which kernel will support this?

You can pick a patch on my web server:  http://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/sensors/hwmon-it8716f-it8718f-v4-2.6.18.patch

This is a combined patch for several fixes to the it87 driver and added support of the IT8716F and IT8718F chips. I will push the individual patches upstream later today, so they should be part of kernel 2.6.19.

For user-space support, just pick the latest SVN snapshot of lm_sensors and that will work fine.