w83627ehf driver does not work on ICH8-based motherboards
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi,
I'm running the latest packages of Ubuntu-Feisty as of March 6th, 2007. Kernel is the default one of this date:
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root@xen:/etc# uname -a
Linux xen 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
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I installed lm_sensors package to get some info about what's going on on my harfware. I then used sensors-detect to see which chips I have. Here's the summary output.
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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 0400'
Busdriver `i2c-i801', I2C address 0x50
Chip `eeprom' (confidence: 6)
* Bus `SMBus I801 adapter at 0400'
Busdriver `i2c-i801', I2C address 0x52
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.
Driver `w83627ehf' (should be inserted):
Detects correctly:
* ISA bus address 0x0290 (Busdriver `i2c-isa')
Chip `Winbond W83627DHG Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9)
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
w83627ehf
#----cut here----
Do you want to add these lines to /etc/modules automatically? (yes/NO)
root@xen:/etc#
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Then I used modprobe to probe the modules:
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root@xen:/etc# modprobe i2c-i801
root@xen:/etc# modprobe eeprom
root@xen:/etc# modprobe w83627ehf
FATAL: Error inserting w83627ehf (/lib/modules/
root@xen:/etc#
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As you see, the w83627ehf module should have found the onboard sensor chip, but it doesn't. The end result is that I don't have any sensor info.
I read in some newsgroups that there's a patch for this driver to work OK on P5B's, which was in 2.6.18 mm tree of the kernel. I don't know if it was merged into this 2.6.20 ubuntu kernel. Please let me know if I'm missing something here.
Best regards,
Emre
Changed in linux-source-2.6.20: | |
assignee: | nobody → ubuntu-kernel-team |
status: | Needs Info → Confirmed |
Just to be clear, the name of your computer is xen, but you are not running a xen kernel on this, and this is not running in a xen VM, correct?