From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Marco Chiappero <marco@absence.it>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:35:58 +0000
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] New Asus board and multiple sensors
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Rudolf Marek ha scritto:
> Hi,

Hi!

> Just a short note. The errors  you are experiencing is concurrent access 
> issue. The Asus util use ACPI bytecode to manipulate the i2c bus. Bus 
> other utils try this same time. It may happen that the i2c bus hangs. 
> Then it reads all ffs. Power down with the power cord will reset all in 
> chipset and fixes the problem.
> 
> So if you will use one util, it should not happen.

Ok, I just wanted to be sure there was no faulty hardware, thank you for 
the explanation.

> Btw what happen if you issue command in linux:
> 
> modprobe thermal
> acpi -V

Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 3
Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 3


Bye

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