From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:29:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] RFC: nct6776f support in the w83627ehf and fan Message-Id: <20110311002911.GA30156@ericsson.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org Hi Robert, On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 07:04:55PM -0500, Robert Kaiser wrote: > Guenter Roeck schrieb: > > Agreed. But you might be able to see the DIMM temperatures (if you have DDR3) > > by loading the "jc42" module. > > Hmm, doesn't seem to work, after loading jc43, I don't see anything new > appearing in sensors output. > jc42, not jc43. > > Actually, I just had a look at the code again. Turns out there is a bug; you see > > the labels associated with NCT6776F, not NCT6775F. Real values should be "PECI Agent 0" > > instead of "SMBUSMASTER 1", "PECI Agent 1" instead of "SMBUSMASTER 2", > > and "PCH_CHIP_TEMP" instead of "PCH_CHIP_CPU_MAX_TEMP". I'll fix that immediately. > > Ah, that makes sense, even if it's interesting that the PCH Chip is so > much hotter than the CPU, but then it doesn't have a fan attached to it > and still enough work, so sounds reasonable. And "PECI Agent 0" being > similar to the values from coretemp is also probably reasonable, as IIRC > PECI means something similar to that, right? > No idea, but I guess so. > > So the temperatures you see as "SMBUSxxx" are really temperatures reported by the CPU. > > Just don't ask me why the CPU would report 0 degrees C ;). > > The i7-2600K is just an incredibly cool CPU, I guess. ;-) > Yes, and if you wire it up correctly you may be able to use it as refrigerator heat pump ;). I copied a new version of the standalone driver to http://www.roeck-us.net/linux/drivers/w83627ehf/, in case you want to give it a try. Thanks, Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors