From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans de Goede Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:02:06 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Fintek F71862FG Super IO Sensors only shows Message-Id: <4E692D4E.6050201@redhat.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, On 09/08/2011 10:35 PM, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:32:22 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >> I guess the BIOS only setups fan 1 and the *cough* brilliant *cough* BIOS >> developers decided to just write 00 as value for the other fans, sigh. >> >> There are really 2 things we can do here: >> 1) Overwrite the BIOS settings, tricky, could do this with a module option >> 2) Instead of not binding the driver at all, allow the driver initialization >> to continue normally, but don't register the pwm interface. This requires >> some thinking wrt modifying the code a bit though. >> >> 1 is a really bad idea IMHO, so I'll think a bit about doing 2. > > And of course option 0, to start with, is to check for a BIOS update > for the board in question, and report to the vendor if no BIOS fix is > available yet. I'm afraid that is very wishful thinking, but it makes sense to try a BIOS update first. Daniel, can you see if there is one and if it helps? Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors