From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 17:01:13 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Some questions from first user Message-Id: <52DC04D9.9010202@roeck-us.net> 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 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 _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors