EPoX 8K7A (VIA82C686B) no sensors! (Examined/Solved - lm_sensors 2.6/Linux 2.4.2)

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1) BIOS correctly reports temperatures and fan speeds

2) Windows utilities correctly report temperatures and fan speeds

3) sensors-detect reports:

...

Probing for PCI bus adapters...

Use driver 'i2c-viapro' for device 00:07.4: VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Apollo

ACPI

Use driver 'i2c-matroxfb' for device 01:05.0: MGA G400 AGP

Probe succesfully concluded.

...

Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done.

Just press ENTER to continue:

Driver 'lm80' (should be inserted):

Detects correctly:

• Bus 'SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter)

Busdriver 'i2c-viapro', I2C address 0x2d

Chip 'National Semiconductor LM80' (confidence: 3)

Driver 'eeprom' (should be inserted):

Detects correctly:

• Bus 'SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter)

Busdriver 'i2c-viapro', I2C address 0x50

Chip 'Serial EEPROM (PC-100 DIMM)' (confidence: 8)

• Bus 'SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000' (Non-I2C SMBus adapter)

Busdriver 'i2c-viapro', I2C address 0x51

Chip 'Serial EEPROM (PC-100 DIMM)' (confidence: 8)

Driver 'via686a' (should be inserted):

Detects correctly:

• ISA bus, undetermined address (Busdriver 'i2c-isa')

Chip 'VIA Technologies VT 82C686 Integrated Sensors' (confidence: 9)

...

4) isadump:

% prog/dump/isadump 0x295 0x296

WARNING! Running this program can cause system crashes, data loss and worse!

I will probe address register 0x0295 and data register 0x0296.

You have five seconds to reconsider and press CTRL-C!

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f

00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

40: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

5) I don't see anything weird in dmesg, but I don't know what to look for.

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MDS 8/18/01