Bug 848536
| Summary: | Chassis fan and core voltage is reported incorrectly with M5A78L motherboard | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Göran Uddeborg <goeran> |
| Component: | lm_sensors | Assignee: | Nikola Pajkovsky <npajkovs> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | dhoward, hdegoede, jcapik, npajkovs, pknirsch |
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2012-08-16 09:32:05 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Hi, Since that motherboard is using the atk0110-acpi all the values are actually read directly from the BIOS. What you could try to see of you're really getting the same reading twice is changing the fan speeds by loading the system, ie from a terminal run: md5sum /dev/urandom& As many times as you've CPU cores, maybe the fan speeds actually are the same when idle under Linux? Note that there is the accuracy of the sensors to take into account, fan sensors tend to measure quite big "steps" so even though the fans of course will not be rotating at the exact same speed, they could show the same reading. To stop the md5sum cpu-loading process do: "fg" followed by pressing CTRL+c from the same terminal, repeat this as many times as you've started md5sum. If the fans stay the same even when loaded, then that would be suspicious, but as said the values are read directly from the BIOS. As for the CPU voltage, that is likely due to frequency stepping of the CPU, if the CPU runs at a lower frequency then it will often operate at a lower voltage too. So I would expect that to go up when you load the system too (often under the BIOS the CPU runs at its full speed). If all of the above does not help, the first thing to do would be to upgrade your BIOS, if that does not help either, then please send a mail to the lm_sensors mailinglist: http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors And put atk0110-acpi in the subject, I'm on that list and the atk0110-acpi driver author follows it actively and promptly replies to any issues. Regards, Hans |
Description of problem: When I run "sensors" on a host with a M5A78L motherboard, it reports the speed of the CPU fan twice, instead of separate CPU and chassis fan. The core voltage is also reported too low. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lm_sensors-3.3.2-2.fc17.x86_64 kernel-3.5.1-1.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. sensors Actual results: atk0110-acpi-0 Adapter: ACPI interface Vcore Voltage: +1.00 V (min = +0.85 V, max = +1.60 V) +3.3 Voltage: +3.25 V (min = +2.97 V, max = +3.63 V) +5 Voltage: +4.98 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.50 V) +12 Voltage: +12.08 V (min = +10.20 V, max = +13.80 V) CPU FAN Speed: 1695 RPM (min = 600 RPM, max = 7200 RPM) CHASSIS FAN Speed: 1695 RPM (min = 600 RPM, max = 7200 RPM) CPU Temperature: +39.0°C (high = +60.0°C, crit = +95.0°C) MB Temperature: +37.0°C (high = +45.0°C, crit = +75.0°C) fam15h_power-pci-00c4 Adapter: PCI adapter power1: 40.41 W (crit = 95.04 W) k10temp-pci-00c3 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: +11.9°C (high = +70.0°C) (crit = +83.5°C, hyst = +80.5°C) radeon-pci-0100 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: +49.0°C Expected results: The CPU and chassis fan speeds are always reported identical. In BIOS, the speed of the chassis fan is reported to be around 850 r/m on an unloaded system, which seems more reasonable. The core voltage is reported just above 1.40 V in BIOS, rather than precisely 1 V as above. The motherboard temperature seems a bit off from the BIOS values too, but I'm not yet sure if it actually reflects temperature differences in different stages. The remaining values are reasonably close to what the BIOS reports. (Well, not the k10temp "temp1", but I guess that one isn't really connected.) Additional info: A few excerpts from dmidecode: BIOS Information Vendor: American Megatrends Inc. Version: 1003 Release Date: 03/23/2012 Base Board Information Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC. Product Name: M5A78L Processor Information Socket Designation: AM3R2 Version: AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor Voltage: 1.4 V And from the manual: Chipset AMD® 760G (780L) / SB710