Sensors not found on Asus A7A266 (Examined/Solved - lm_sensors 2.5.5 Linux 2.4.5)

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The A7A266 is an alimagik based board. I'm running the latest bios.

lspci shows:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]: Unknown device 1647 (rev 04)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5247

00:02.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB (rev 03)

00:04.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev c4)

00:06.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB (rev 03)

00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge

[Aladdin IV]

00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 21)

00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000 (rev 07)

00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 07)

00:0b.0 Multimedia controller: Sigma Designs, Inc. REALmagic Hollywood Plus DVD

Decoder (rev 01)

00:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7881U (rev 01)

00:11.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101 PMU

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce? 256 DDR (rev 10)

sensors-detect says to use i2c-ali15x3 for device 00:11:0: Acer Labs M7101,

but that fails. syslog shows:

Jun 5 15:23:30 isabelle kernel: i2c-ali15x3.o version 2.5.5 (20010115)

Jun 5 15:23:30 isabelle kernel: i2c-ali15x3.o: ALI15X3_smb region uninitialized

- upgrade BIOS?

Jun 5 15:23:30 isabelle kernel: i2c-ali15x3.o: ALI15X3 not detected, module not

inserted.

i2c-ali1535 will load just fine, but running sensors reports no sensors found.

under windows, motherboard monitor 5 works with the board just fine, so I'm not

inclined to believe the bios is at fault. --- Some of our drivers support a force_addr argument to

write a base address to the chip, but unfortunately

we have not yet added that support to i2c-ali15x3. Sorry.

You can set the address yourself with 'setpci' if you

feel like looking through the driver to find the address and you are brave.

If you need further assistance email sensors@…

and reference your ticket number.

MDS 6/7/01

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Resolution:

The i2c-ali1535 driver is the correct one for ALI Magic.

The i2c-alli15x3 is not correct.

Sensors-detect was updated in our 2.6.2 release to try both drivers.

If, after loading i2c-ali1535, no sensors are found, then

whatever sensors you have are not supported by us.

Look at your board for clues, also see our FAQ.

Closed MDS 12/31/01