From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Some questions from first user
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 17:01:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52DC04D9.9010202@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADR1r6jbaekgXZTJQ7n+5MJW13miQdtbGG=KimEqTT8t2BDKLg@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/19/2014 05:51 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:32:37 +0100, Martin Herrman wrote:
>> However, it doesn't reset values to the BIOS settings (I guess it
>> cannot retrieve the BIOS settings). So when removing a setting in
>> sensors.conf and using the init script, will not reset the removed
>> setting to BIOS value.
>
> Indeed BIOS values aren't stored anywhere so the only way to go back to
> them is to cold boot the machine.
>
>> (...)
>> I can explain negative values: BIOS sets offset to 72, so when set to
>> 10 it will decrease by 62 instead of adding 10 :-)
>
> 72 is an unusually high offset. It might have to do with PECI sensor
> type where values are reported relatively to a limit. Different
> monitoring chips handle this case differently.
>
Yes, that is usually what happens with PECI. The 'offset' is really
the maximum temperature, since PECI delivers the difference to that
temperature.
Guenter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-19 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-08 20:54 [lm-sensors] Some questions from first user Martin Herrman
2014-01-09 7:57 ` Jean Delvare
2014-01-16 21:24 ` Martin Herrman
2014-01-16 22:08 ` Jean Delvare
2014-01-18 10:06 ` Martin Herrman
2014-01-18 12:38 ` Jean Delvare
2014-01-19 13:32 ` Martin Herrman
2014-01-19 13:51 ` Jean Delvare
2014-01-19 17:01 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2014-01-20 10:07 ` Martin Herrman
2014-01-20 10:19 ` Jean Delvare
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