[lm-sensors] No readings except for core temperatures on Dell Optiplex 780

Juerg Haefliger juergh at gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 17:28:38 CEST 2010


Hi Tobias,

<SNIP>

>
> Some Super I/O chips contain embedded sensors. We have to write to
> standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe.
> Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no):
> Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f
> Trying family `National Semiconductor'...                   No
> Trying family `SMSC'...                                     Yes
> Found unknown chip with ID 0x8d01

I don't know what this device is. It might be Dell specific. Can you
open the machine and try to read the part name? Must be something like
SMSC ...

...juerg



> Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f
> Trying family `National Semiconductor'...                   No
> Trying family `SMSC'...                                     No
> Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'...               No
> Trying family `ITE'...                                      No
>



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