Problems detecting the hardware for Laptop ASUS A6Ja

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Dear all,

my Asus A6Ja is quite HOT laptops as known. I've replaced the original Hitachi HDD with a most performant HTE721010G9AT00 and TEMP encreased a lot: CPU works around 43C, HDD often over 56C which is critical yikes

With Windows XP I use SpeedFan? ( http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php) a nice tool for changing computer's fan speeds, reading temperatures of mobo and HDD, voltages and fan speeds and more.

This is a really good tool, and until now I am not able to find something of similar for Linux / ARCHLinux.

lm-sensors seems unable to recognize A6Ja sensors, and, most important, I did not find any tool for changing the FAN speed with ARCHLinux: the TEMP is *at least* 15-20C higher than under windows...

Here a report for sensors detected by SpeedFan?, and I hope this could give some indication on what are the necessary tools/modules for a properly hardware detection.

Win9x:NO  64Bit:NO  GiveIO:YES  SpeedFan:YES
I/O properly initialized
Linked ISA BUS at $0290
Linked Intel 82801GB ICH7 SMBUS at $0400
Scanning ISA BUS at $0290...
Scanning Intel SMBus at $0400...
Address $15 appears to be WRITE ONLY...
ADT7463 (ID=$27) found on SMBus at $2E
Address $4C appears to be WRITE ONLY...
SMART Enabled for drive 0
Found HTE721010G9AT00 (100,0GB)
Found ACPI temperature (65,0C)

End of detection SF detects the following chip:

ADT7463 at $2E on Intel SMBus

And this looks to me the most relevant (maybe the only) one, which controls the MAIN FAN sensor PWM1.

Unfortunately I don't know the way to handle this ADT7463 and the FAN speed, despite the fact it seems to be well driven by the lm85 driver as reported on the official lm-sensor page:  http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices

If I load the coretemp module, I can see the following results invoking sensors:

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0:      +50°C  (high =  +100°C)

coretemp-isa-0001
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 1:      +48°C  (high =  +100°C)

And cpufreq-info shows the following (with the module acpi-cpufreq):

cpufrequtils 002: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2006
Report errors and bugs to linux@brodo.de, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
  driver: acpi-cpufreq
  CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0 1
  hardware limits: 996 MHz - 1.66 GHz
  available frequency steps: 1.66 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 996 MHz
  available cpufreq governors: powersave, userspace, ondemand,
conservative, performance
  current policy: frequency should be within 996 MHz and 1.33 GHz.
                  The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 996 MHz (asserted by call to hardware).
analyzing CPU 1:
  driver: acpi-cpufreq
  CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0 1
  hardware limits: 996 MHz - 1.66 GHz
  available frequency steps: 1.66 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 996 MHz
  available cpufreq governors: powersave, userspace, ondemand,
conservative, performance
  current policy: frequency should be within 996 MHz and 1.33 GHz.
                  The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use
                  within this range.
  current CPU frequency is 996 MHz (asserted by call to hardware).

Any idea for me? Tnx

[juergh]

Duplicate:  http://www.lm-sensors.org/ticket/2256