Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-20 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Nicolas, > I confirm that 0x7f is full speed. So at least the polarity bit is correct, and Gigabyte isn't to blame. > > Once you know if the polarity is correct, you can try different > > values of PWM between 0x00 and 0x7F and see how exactly your fan > > reacts to them. > > That's where th

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-20 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Jean Delvare wrote: > > In the mean time I'm willing to try out things > > with isaset if you can suggest basic tests (easier than upgrading kernel > > for the time being). > > The best test I can think of is to switch your CPU fan to manual PWM > mode. To do that, write 0x40

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-20 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Nicolas, > It looks like only temp3 is used for the CPU temperature, fan1 is the > CPU fan and fan2 the case fan. This is coherent with your chip configuration. > I experimented with isaset tweaking individual bits in register 0x14 > (blindly I confess, haven't read the datasheet) and flippi

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-20 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Hi Nicolas, > > > > I would also appreciate a dump of the chip (isadump 0x295 0x296 unless > > > it lives at some uncommon address) to confirm the guess. > > > > 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f > > 00: 11 10 80 00 37 ff 00 37 ff 07

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-20 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Nicolas, > > I would also appreciate a dump of the chip (isadump 0x295 0x296 unless > > it lives at some uncommon address) to confirm the guess. > > 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f > 00: 11 10 80 00 37 ff 00 37 ff 07 13 5b 00 51 40 ff > 10: fe fe ff 71 d7 fe 7f fe 00 00 ff

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-19 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > > > FWIW, I have a Gigabyte motherboard with an it87 chip too. Reading > > about this it87 polarity thing I'm suspecting something is really > > wrong here: > > > > When system is idle, the sensors report shows: > > CPU temp = +25°C and

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-19 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Nicolas, > FWIW, I have a Gigabyte motherboard with an it87 chip too. Reading > about this it87 polarity thing I'm suspecting something is really > wrong here: > > When system is idle, the sensors report shows: > CPU temp = +25°C and CPU fan = 2136 RPM (and rather noisy) > > When system is

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-19 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Jean Delvare wrote: > When I get this, I'll compare with the datasheets so as to understand > how your chip is configured (or left unconfigured) by your BIOS. This > will both help me propose a workaround in the it87 driver and explain > the Gigabyte support what I think they

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-17 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Simone, > While we're at it, the fan speed sensor reports an absurd speed when > the fan is driven with very low but non-zero pwm values. For > example, driving it with pwm=2 I get speeds over 50K rpms, while of > course the fan is stopped (almost?). This could be just an hardware > sensit

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-16 Thread Simone Piunno
Hi, While we're at it, the fan speed sensor reports an absurd speed when the fan is driven with very low but non-zero pwm values. For example, driving it with pwm=2 I get speeds over 50K rpms, while of course the fan is stopped (almost?). This could be just an hardware sensitivity problem in

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-15 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Simone, > > 2* In the logs, you should see an information line with the chip > > type, address and revision. > > 3* Still in the logs, you should see a warning about your BIOS being > > broken and PWM being disabled as a consequence. > > Confirmed, but it looks like there's a missing linefeed

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-15 Thread Simone Piunno
On Friday 14 January 2005 15:40, Jean Delvare wrote: > Kernel 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 is just out, which does contain the latest updates > to the it87 driver. I would like you to test them. What you should see: > 1* When loading the it87 driver, the fans should not change speeds. confirmed. > 2* In the l