Re: [LinuxBIOS] m57sli-s4 and i2c

[Peter Stuge]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:40:26PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> Found `ITE IT8716F Super IO Sensors'
>     (but not activated)

--8<--
  # Switch to the sensor logical device
  outb($addrreg, $superio{logdevreg});
  outb($datareg, $chip->{logdev});

# Check the activation register
  outb($addrreg, $superio{actreg});
  $val = inb($datareg);
  if (!($val & $superio{actmask})) {
    print "\n    (but not activated)\n";
    return;
  }
-->8--

I guess LB doesn't activate the sensors part of the superio?
> Under LinuxBIOS, the it87 module can not be loaded:
>
> FATAL: Error inserting it87
> (/lib/modules/2.6.20.1/kernel/drivers/hwmon/it87.ko): No such device

Is there anything informative in dmesg after this error?

//Peter