ok ronster, Im ready for lm_sensors guide

[antitrustworthy]

Well, I tried setting up lm_sensors with the sensors-detect perl script. Everything seemed to go fine, but now when I run 'sensors -s' I get the message "No sensors found!" Maybe I just didnt do it right, because I know I have sensors on my board. Its an ASUS A7V. Thanks again.

[BobjoB]

did you load the sensor modules?
for the a7v you need to load the core modules and the viapro drivers to get sensor readings

[antitrustworthy]

yep, I loaded:

i2c-viapro
i2c-core
i2c-isa
w8378ld
sensors

then I did depmod -a and then I added the stuff "sensors-detect" told me to in modules.conf and rc.d/rc.local

[r0nster]

Instead of the viapro module, try the via686a module. I don't recall off hand if the Asus has the via686a or 686b southbridge but I believe its the 686a.
Give the via686a a try

[r0nster]

here is part of my rc.local script:
# hardware sensors info below
# I2C adapter drivers
modprobe i2c-isa
# I2C chip drivers
modprobe via686a

The rest of the modules is taken care of by modules.dep
Part of /sbin/lsmod:
ronster@psychadelie:~$ /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 41632 1 (autoclean)
via686a 8928 0
sensors 6080 0 [via686a]
i2c-isa 1168 0 (unused)
i2c-core 12880 0 [via686a sensors i2c-isa]

[antitrustworthy]

Ok, I got lm_sensors up and running now. Thanks for the tip on via686a.... that did the trick. However, in gkrellm, my cpu temperature is reading -94 degrees Farenheit. Ummmmmm, I could be mistaken, but I think that's a little wrong. Any tips for me? I saw something about offsets in the setup, but it didnt explain them at all. Again, I am at your feet humbly begging for help.

[r0nster]

Blame it all on VIA for not releasing their specs on white paper (I could be wrong of course). My temps were way off until I booted into windoze and loaded viahm (via hardware monitoring) and let the system set for a bit and then write down the voltages and temps. Then I booted into Linux and went into the gkrellm configuration and fiddled with the "factor" settings for each of the sensors until I got them in line with my earlier findings. Take my settings with a grain of salt and do what I did: boot windoze and write down your volts/temps and then boot back into linux...
My factors for the following sensors:
via686a temp 1 (mb) 0.9100
via686a temp 2 (cpu) 0.7700
via686a fan 1 9.1000
via686a fan2 1.0000
via686a in0 (v core) 1.0100
via686a in2 (+3.3v) 1.0000
via686a in3 (+5v) 1.0200
via686a in4 (+12V) 1.0210

[antitrustworthy]

yeah, I did that already. I played around with it and put my settings to match that of the temps and such that I wrote down. However..... as a test, I looked and saw that my CPU temp was reading 129 degrees F. (damn T-bird 1.2 GHz) Then I turned off my computer and put a large fan right beside the open case of my computer on high in order to really cool my system down. After half an hour, I checked the BIOS hardware monitor and it said the CPU was at about 70 degrees. I booted into linux and checked my pre-tweaked gkrellm, and it still read 129 degrees. Doh! I dont think it got that hot that fast. The fan was still even going! So something aint cool. And also, neither of my fan settings show anything. Ive got two fans running... one on the CPU and one on the Voodoo3. Something should be reading. Any helpful knowledge would be...well... helpful. :)

[antitrustworthy]

bump

[pbharris]

don't knwo i this will help but i used SMbus rather than ISA - ISA gave me rally mesed up readings but SMbus is pretty good, it has a about 10 degree C diffential from what is in the BIOS. Here are the modules I ahve load:


via686a 8656 0 (unused)
w83781d 17392 0 (unused)
i2c-proc 6160 0 [via686a w83781d]
i2c-viapro 3936 0 (unused)
i2c-core 12560 0 [via686a w83781d i2c-proc i2c-viapro]


Here is what I have in my rc.lcoal

#
# I2C adapter drivers
# modprobe unknown adapter ELV Parallel port adaptor using Bit-shift algorithm
modprobe i2c-viapro
#modprobe i2c-isa
# I2C chip drivers
modprobe w83781d
modprobe via686a