Asus a7v8x support

[mds@paradyne.com (Mark D. Studebaker )]

see FAQ for why temperature readings may be different.

FRLinux wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using Gentoo Linux on an Asus a7v8x motherboard with an Athlon XP
> 2600+. Been using a vanilla kernel with latest acpi patches and i2c and
> lm_sensors (2.7.0) patched against it (using your mkpatch command). All
> is fine but the cpu temperature which seems to be 20 degrees upper its
> real temperature ... Same problem occurs with 2.4.20 and 2.4.21
> 
> Here are the modules i am using : 
> 
> w83781d                20368   0  (unused)
> i2c-viapro              3984   0  (unused)
> i2c-proc                7312   0  [w83781d]
> i2c-core               15208   0  [w83781d i2c-viapro i2c-proc]
> 
> The sensors.conf is the one provided with your sources. I've included a
> sensors.conf that i found on the web concerning the asus motherboards
> but it then have a wrong cpu value by nearly 10 degrees lower than the
> real value.
> 
> I hope i am not disturbing anyone around. Been using your project for
> quite some time now and was fine until i switched to a kt400 board (had
> a kt133a before hand).
> 
> Steph
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # Sensors configuration file used by 'libsensors'
> #------------------------------------------------
> chip "w83782d-*" "w83783s-*" "w83627hf-*"
>     label in0 "VCore 1"
>     label in1 "VCore 2"
>     label in2 "+3.3V"
>     label in3 "+5V"
>     label in4 "+12V"
>     label in5 "-12V"
>     label in6 "-5V"
>     label in7 "V5SB"
>     label in8 "VBat"
> 
> compute in3 ((6.8/10)+1)*@ ,  @/((6.8/10)+1)
> compute in4 ((28/10)+1)*@  ,  @/((28/10)+1)
> compute in5 (5.14 * @) - 14.91  ,  (@ + 14.91) / 5.14
> compute in6 (3.14 * @) -  7.71  ,  (@ +  7.71) / 3.14
> compute in7 ((6.8/10)+1)*@ ,  @/((6.8/10)+1)
> 
> # set limits to  5% for the critical voltages
> # set limits to 10% for the non-critical voltages
> # set limits to 20% for the battery voltage
> 
>     set in0_min vid*0.95
>     set in0_max vid*1.05
>     set in1_min vid*0.95
>     set in1_max vid*1.05
>     set in2_min 3.3 * 0.95
>     set in2_max 3.3 * 1.05
>     set in3_min 5.0 * 0.95
>     set in3_max 5.0 * 1.05
>     set in4_min 12 * 0.90
>     set in4_max 12 * 1.10
>     set in5_min -12 * 0.90
>     set in5_max -12 * 1.10
>     set in6_min -5 * 0.95
>     set in6_max -5 * 1.05
>     set in7_min 5 * 0.95
>     set in7_max 5 * 1.05
>     set in8_min 3.0 * 0.80
>     set in8_max 3.0 * 1.20
> 
> # set up sensor types (thermistor is default)
> # 1 = PII/Celeron Diode; 2 = 3904 transistor;
> # 3435 = thermistor with Beta = 3435
> # If temperature changes very little, try 1 or 2.
>    set sensor1 2
>    set sensor2 2
>    set sensor3 2
> 
>    set temp1_over 70
>    set temp1_hyst 60
>    set temp2_over 70
>    set temp2_hyst 60
>    set temp3_over 70
>    set temp3_hyst 60
> 
>    ignore alarms
>    ignore beep_enable
>