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02/15/99 01:59:04 (10 years ago)
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mds
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clarified documentation on enabling device in BIOS.

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  • lm-sensors/trunk/doc/busses/i2c-ali15x3

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    1111Complete and tested on the author's system. 
    1212Untested by others. 
    13 SMBus hangs on author's system when accessing W83781D, 
     13SMBus sometimes hangs on author's system when accessing W83781D, 
    1414cause unknown (see Issues below). 
    1515 
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    5151 
    5252  00:02.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. M5237 (rev 03) 
    53   00:03.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M7101 
     53  00:03.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M7101      <= THIS IS THE ONE WE NEED 
    5454  00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M1533 (rev c3) 
    5555  00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. M5229 (rev c1) 
    5656 
    57 If you have a 1533 or 1543C on the board but not in the lspci 
    58 listing, check your BIOS settings. 
     57** IMPORTANT ** 
     58** If you have a 1533 or 1543C on the board and you get 
     59** "ali15x3.o: Error: Can't detect ali15x3!" 
     60** then run lspci. 
     61** If you see the 1533 and 5229 devices but NOT the 7101 device, 
     62** then you MUST enable ACPI, the PMU, SMB, or something similar 
     63** in the BIOS. If you can't figure out how to enable the 
     64** 7101 device in the BIOS, you have to upgrade your BIOS. 
     65** The driver won't work if it can't find the 7101 device. 
    5966 
    6067The SMB controller is part of the 7101 device, which is an