Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:42:15 +0100 | From | Jean Delvare <> | Subject | Re: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails |
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Hi Elvis,
On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:12:25 -0500, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote: > I have exactly the same problem here on a Gigabyte GA-965G-DS3 motherboard > based box:
Same motherboard as Mike has.
> it87: Found IT8718F chip at 0x290, revision 1 > it87: in3 is VCC (+5V) > it87 it87.656: Failed to request region 0x290-0x297 > it87: probe of it87.656 failed with error -16 > > git bisecting revealed the offending commit: > > a7839e960675b54: PNP: increase the maximum number of resources > > Happened between rc3 and rc4. > > > Either way, the overlapping areas smell like a BIOS bug, meaning that > > you should look for an updated BIOS for your system first. > > > >> http://www.mikeserv.com/temp/config-2.6.24-rc4.txt > > > > This indeed looks like a broken ACPI BIOS since the aforementioned commit > touches only the PNP ACPI driver. I'm not sure how to work around this, > though. Ideas?
Complaining to Gigabyte seems to be the best approach.
In the meantime, I guess that booting with pnpacpi=off should fix your problem. But it might break something else; I'm not sure what the PNP ACPI driver is good for in the first place.
-- Jean Delvare
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