Bug#288418: lm-sensors: unrecognized via686a chip

[Aurélien Jarno]

Romain Riviere wrote:
Well I tried both : my old sensors.conf for the same machine, and the
latest Debian version. With the Debian file I get such nonsensical max
settings as :
P/S Fan:  2220 RPM  (min = 56250 RPM, div = 8)          ALARM
>
Yep, that's fifty-six thousand RPM, no wonder the ALARM goes off.
Anyways, setting manual max RPM worked fine, but as opposed to what is
said in the sensors.conf, the defaults are NOT fine :)
Actually, the defaults value (ie when not set by lm-sensors) are 
provided by the bios. It means that your bios doesn't set the min value 
for this fan.

Also some of the readings are still offset by quite a bit, but I know
there's not much to do about it except trial and error with various
compute lines until the value is in the expected range, since the mobo
manufacturers won't provide much data (especially for VIA)...
The offset may be due rounding that was not done correctly done in 
kernel previous than 2.6.6 (in fact the exact version depends on the 
chip) and lm-sensors 2.8.8.

I think this bug can now be closed, as it is now separate from the other 
bug report about the shuttle mainboard.

Aurelien
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