Andrea Conti <a...@alyf.net> [10-12-12 14:00]: > > AMD k10 was already in and reports everything -- only the fan stuff > > was missing, which (normall) the ITE (it87) chip is used for. > > Current IT87xx chips provide fan, temperature and voltage readings. > > If you built the drivers as modules, are you sure everything (it87 and > the relevant i2c drivers) is loaded? > Check the kernel log for any error messages. > > > The version of lm_sensors, which is in portage reports here "driver to > > be written" but the svn-version of lm_sensors seems to support it > > Support for a specific sensor chip is provided by the kernel driver, not > by lm_sensors. sensor-detect only provides advice based on the situation > at the time it was released; if a more recent revision says that the > chip is supported, it means that a driver for the chip now exists, *not* > that the driver provided by the current kernel supports it. > > However, according to this page the it8720F chip seems to be supported > starting from kernel 2.6.29, so kernel version is not your problem. > > http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices > > andrea >
The chip on the board is a ITE IT8721. An excerpt of the top part of /usr/src/linux-2.36.6.2/drivers/hwmon/it87.c * * Supports: IT8705F Super I/O chip w/LPC interface * IT8712F Super I/O chip w/LPC interface * IT8716F Super I/O chip w/LPC interface * IT8718F Super I/O chip w/LPC interface * IT8720F Super I/O chip w/LPC interface * IT8726F Super I/O chip w/LPC interface * Sis950 A clone of the IT8705F * Therefore the chip is unsupported and the kernel is the source of the problem according to your explanations. mcc
