Re: [lm-sensors] it87 sensors need an ACPI driver (2.6.31)

Gene Heskett
2009-09-20T20:38:07Z

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On Sunday 20 September 2009, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:20 AM, wixor <wixorpeek@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> with recent upgrade to 2.6.31 I get
>>
>> it87: Found IT8712F chip at 0x290, revision 7
>> it87: in3 is VCC (+5V)
>> it87: in7 is VCCH (+5V Stand-By)
>> ACPI: I/O resource it87 [0x295-0x296] conflicts with ACPI region IP__
>> [0x295-0x296]
>> ACPI: Device needs an ACPI driver
>> FATAL: Error inserting it87
>> (/lib/modules/2.6.31/kernel/drivers/hwmon/it87.ko): Device or resource
>> busy
>
>[...]
>
>> I have also discovered that dsdt contains description of what is
>> connected to each it87 input. Maybe it has also some code to access
>> the chip? In /proc/acpi I can read only one temperature, while the
>> chip measures three temperatures, fan speeds and voltages. This is
>> desktop pc with ASUS A8N1-E maniboard, athlon64 and nforce4 chipset.
>
>Try the asus_atk0110 driver, it handles the ACPI hwmon interface on
>Asus motherboards. If it does not work then please send a dump of your
>DSDT (/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT).
>
>Luca
Jumping in the middle of this, I am another that it87 doesn't work very well
for, ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe board.

DSDT dump attached.

Thanks.

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