[i2c] problems with Dell Inspiron 8000

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Matthias,

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:09:45 +0100, Matthias Weiss wrote:
> Hello Jean!
> 
> First for the help, the unhide_ICH_SMBus did just fine. I've now also one 
> i2c-0 device in /dev. Running sensors-detect looks also promising, it ends 
> with:
> 
> Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done.
> Just press ENTER to continue:
> 
> Driver `eeprom' (should be inserted):
>   Detects correctly:
>   * Bus `SMBus I801 adapter at 08c0'
>     Busdriver `i2c-i801', I2C address 0x50
>     Chip `eeprom' (confidence: 6)
> 
>   EEPROMs are *NOT* sensors! They are data storage chips commonly
>   found on memory modules (SPD), in monitors (EDID), or in some
>   laptops, for example.

Looks like you didn't pay attention to this warning...

> 
> I will now generate the commands needed to load the required modules.
> Just press ENTER to continue:
> 
> To make the sensors modules behave correctly, add these lines to
> /etc/modules:
> 
> #----cut here----
> # I2C adapter drivers
> i2c-i801
> # Chip drivers
> eeprom
> #----cut here----
> 
> 
> But when I run the sensors binary 
> 
> /usr/bin/sensors -s
> 
> I get:
> 
> No sensors found!
> Make sure you loaded all the kernel drivers you need.
> Try sensors-detect to find out which these are.

Which is true, as sensors-detect only found EEPROMs on the SMBus and no
hardware monitoring chip.

> I know, that my Dell Inspiron 8000 has this information, there is a Software 

What "information" are you talking about?

> Package named "i8kutils" by Massimo Dal Zotto to be found here : 
> http://people.debian.org/~dz/i8k/ .
> 
> As suggested in the README I can do a
> 
> cat /proc/i8k
> 
> and get
> 
> 1.0 A22 CSW840J 57 0 0 0 0 -1 0

What do these values mean?

> 
> ( Yes, I have the Dell laptop kernel module installed ).
> So it seems that there are sensor information available. The question is: How 
> can I make it accessable to lm-sensors? Any ideas?

To make *what* accessible?

-- 
Jean Delvare