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    SubjectRe: [lm-sensors] 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails
    Mike Houston wrote:
    > On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:42:15 +0100
    > Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
    >
    >
    >> On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:12:25 -0500, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote:
    >>
    >
    >
    >>> 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.
    >>
    >
    > I just happen to have a Windows Vista installation on this box as
    > well, and I just thought to check. Sorry, I wish I'd have thought of
    > it sooner but I don't go there often. You folks might be interested
    > to know that Windows appears to have the same silly problem with the
    > i/o resources (from Device Manager):
    >
    > [000000290 - 000000294] Motherboard resources
    > [000000290 - 00000029F] Motherboard resources
    >
    > I don't have anything that reads sensors in Windows though, so I
    > couldn't tell you if it could access that it87 chip or not.
    >
    > So this pretty much confirms that it's a motherboard/bios issue.
    >
    > Mike Houston
    >
    >

    I'm seeing this exact problem on an Asus Nforce4 based board. Prior to
    moving to 2.6.24-rc4 it worked just fine. No additional acpi options
    were selected in kernel config.

    So add Asus A8N-E to the list of broken pnpacpi



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