From e846385f7507bdd5b22fb58d6dadda57d109230e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Mark D. Studebaker" Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:59:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] clarified documentation on enabling device in BIOS. git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@228 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0 --- doc/busses/i2c-ali15x3 | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/busses/i2c-ali15x3 b/doc/busses/i2c-ali15x3 index b918a6d8..d3e252f1 100644 --- a/doc/busses/i2c-ali15x3 +++ b/doc/busses/i2c-ali15x3 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Stability --------- Complete and tested on the author's system. Untested by others. -SMBus hangs on author's system when accessing W83781D, +SMBus sometimes hangs on author's system when accessing W83781D, cause unknown (see Issues below). @@ -50,12 +50,19 @@ on the PCI bus. An output of lspci will show something similar to the following: 00:02.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. M5237 (rev 03) - 00:03.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M7101 + 00:03.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M7101 <= THIS IS THE ONE WE NEED 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M1533 (rev c3) 00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. M5229 (rev c1) -If you have a 1533 or 1543C on the board but not in the lspci -listing, check your BIOS settings. +** IMPORTANT ** +** If you have a 1533 or 1543C on the board and you get +** "ali15x3.o: Error: Can't detect ali15x3!" +** then run lspci. +** If you see the 1533 and 5229 devices but NOT the 7101 device, +** then you MUST enable ACPI, the PMU, SMB, or something similar +** in the BIOS. If you can't figure out how to enable the +** 7101 device in the BIOS, you have to upgrade your BIOS. +** The driver won't work if it can't find the 7101 device. The SMB controller is part of the 7101 device, which is an ACPI-compliant Power Management Unit (PMU).