http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539003
User jdelvare@novell.com added comment
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539003#c3
Jean Delvare changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED
Info Provider|jerbes@gmail.com |
Resolution| |INVALID
--- Comment #3 from Jean Delvare 2009-11-13 02:32:41 MST ---
Exactly as I suspected. So, your ACPI BIOS has requested the I/O ports of the
hardware monitoring functions of your IT8718F Super-I/O chip, locking the
native driver (it87) out. Maybe they are using it for their own needs. Or maybe
not, but either way, it's not safe to let native drivers access I/O ports ACPI
may be accessing as well. See this FAQ entry for details:
http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ/Chapter3#Mysensorshavestoppedworkinginker...
I am not aware of any driver for a Biostar-specific hardware monitoring
implementation. So for now you are unfortunately out of hardware monitoring on
this system. If this worries you, you should ask the hardware vendor for
technical information regarding what the BIOS is doing with these I/O ports
(0xe85-0xe86). If they are using them, we need to know how. If they are _not_
using them, then they should not declare them at the ACPI level, so that the OS
can use them.
There's nothing more I can do for you, I'm afraid, as this is essentially a
BIOS issue.
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