Changeset 4283 for lm-sensors/trunk/prog/hotplug/README.p4b

Timestamp:

01/06/07 23:18:39 (2 years ago)

Author:

ruik

Message:

Add the unhide_ICH_SMBus script

Files:

• lm-sensors/trunk/prog/hotplug/README.p4b (modified) (3 diffs)

lm-sensors/trunk/prog/hotplug/README.p4b

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-This is just a quick and dirty hack to get the hardware monitoring working
-on the ASUS P4B board under Linux.
-It works by turning on the SMBus PCI device.
-It is implemented as a module, p4b_smbus.o.
-It works with the following chips:
- * ICH2   (82801BA)
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-Really funny :-).
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+This module is for 2.4 kernels only. For 2.6 kernels, activation is
+handled by the code in drivers/pci/quirks.c in the kernel source. If you
+have the 2.6 kernel and the quirks code does not activate your SMBus,
+you may:
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+ * check if you have kernel version from 2.6.17 to 2.6.19
+   If so you, need to disable ACPI sleep support and recompile kernel. 
+   If you don't use suspend try below instead of recompilation.
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+ * run as root the ./unhide_ICH_SMBus script. It will unhide the bus 
+   and load the i2c-i801 driver.
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+ * if above script works and you have latest kernel, you may 
+   try to fix the quirks.c, recompile and test your new kernel,
+   and then submit a patch to us. Contact us if you need assistance.
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+Information for 2.4 users continues below.
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-NOTE: As of kernel 2.4.23, the kernel activates the SMBus PCI device
-on the following boards:
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-So this module is no longer required for these boards. For the other 
-affected boards, it still is.
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-What does the module do?