Re: lm_sensors - they are in there somewhere .....

> Given that ACPI is working but doing something which I can't see, I 
> thought I would try and figure out lm_sensors. Hoover, I don't even
> get past first base. sensors-detect comes out with this ....
> 
> Some chips are also accessible through the ISA bus. ISA probes are
>  typically a bit more dangerous, as we have to write to I/O ports to
>  do this.  Do you want to scan the ISA bus? (YES/no): y
> Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78'
>   Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
> Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J'
>   Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
> Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79'
>   Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
> Probing for `Winbond W83781D'
>   Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
> Probing for `Winbond W83782D'
>   Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
> Probing for `Winbond W83627HF'
>   Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
> Probing for `Winbond W83697HF'
>   Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
> Probing for `Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595'
>   Trying general detect... Failed!
> Probing for `VIA Technologies VT82C686 Integrated Sensors'
>   Trying general detect... Failed!
> Probing for `VIA Technologies VT8231 Integrated Sensors'
>   Trying general detect... Failed!
> Probing for `ITE IT8705F / IT8712F / SiS 950'
>   Trying address 0x0290... Failed!
> Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS'
>   Trying address 0x0ca0... Failed!
> Probing for `IPMI BMC SMIC'
>   Trying address 0x0ca8... Failed!

The first part of the log would have been interesting also. Didn't
sensors-detect find an I2C or SMBus controller?

> I don't know if the problem lies with the fact that KDE's information 
> Centre tells me that the ISA Bridge is a VT8235, which doesn't show
> on the list above.

Should have been detected in the first part of sensors-detect, the
chipset is supported. Which version of lm_sensors are you using?

> I have loaded i2c-dev manually, but this doesn't seem to have made
> much dif. I am pretty sure that lm_sensors was loaded by default when
> I installed Severn from scratch onto my laptop.

The i2c-dev module doesn't do anything useful by itself. It is loaded by
sensors-detect and is used only for detection purposes.

> Does anyone know whether lm_sensors is supposed to work with Vaio 
> laptops running Athlons?

On all Vaio laptops I have seen so far (almost a dozen) an I2C bus was
found (Intel 82801, they were Intel systems), but only eeproms were
available there. No sensor chip was ever seen, and it seems to be the
same for you now.

I would be interested in your i2c bus dump. Please load i2c-viapro, run
"i2cdetect 0" and send me the output (well, if you want).

> After some previous information about XMMS 1.28 pre1, I loaded this up
> too and for the first time I can play audio CDs under Linux.

Yes, xmms-1.2.8 will be great :) The only problem I have so far is that
the (new, at least for me) ALSA plugin has some drawbacks. The sound
sometimes skips, and I am unable to play non-stereo or non-16-bit
samples. I hope it'll be fixed in the final version (in the meantime, I
stick to the OSS plugin).

-- 
Jean Delvare
http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/