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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: lm_sensors and w83627hf not loadable
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:10:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hp5noto.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87iq8pnr6h.fsf@newsguy.com

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

Forgot to give kernel version:
uname -r 
2.6.33-gentoo

> I see lots of bug reports about this in several linux OSs but not able
> to see a solution.
>
> I've make the propers kernel settings and the w83627hf modules is
> built and available in /lib/modules/*
> I tried rebuilding the kernel with that stuff built-in.  but then
> lm_sensors couldn't even find tools to work with when running
>  sensors-detect
>
>   So calling `sensors' just in case it would work:
>     # sensors
>   No sensors found!
>   Make sure you loaded all the kernel drivers you need.
>   Try sensors-detect to find out which these are.
>
> Back to a modular kernel:
> lm_sensors tells me that w83627hf is the one to load in
> /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors.
>
> But any attempt to load it meets with this result (wrapped for mail):
> modprobe w83627hf
>   FATAL: Error inserting w83627hf 
>   (/lib/modules/2.6.33-gentoo/kernel/drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.ko):
>    Device or resource busy
>
> Looking at dmesg after running the above command, I find lines like
> these (repeated several times):
>  [ 1321.715673] w83627hf: Found W83627THF chip at 0x290
>
>  [ 1321.715712] ACPI: I/O resource w83627hf [0x295-0x296] conflicts
>  with ACPI region HWMT [0x295-0x296]
>
>  [ 1321.715716] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device,
>  you should use it instead of the native driver
>
> -------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      -------- 
>
> So anyone know what is wrong here?

Sorry about the second printing just to show kernel version




  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-22  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-22  0:19 [gentoo-user] lm_sensors and w83627hf not loadable Harry Putnam
2010-03-22  1:10 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2010-03-22  8:59   ` [gentoo-user] " Helmut Jarausch
2010-03-22 13:42     ` Harry Putnam
2010-03-22 16:10       ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-03-22 19:49         ` Harry Putnam

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