Re: Dell Latitude E6440 & i8k

[Guenter Roeck]

On 05/16/2014 12:23 PM, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2014 21:11:17 Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi Pali,
> >
> > On Fri, 16 May 2014 20:37:41 +0200, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > on Dell Latitude E6440 driver i8k reporting total nonsense
> > > values
> >
> > That's kind of excessive wording, the output isn't that bad.
>
> I mean fan RPM & temp4. Those are for sure incorrect.
>
> > > $ sensors
> > > i8k-virtual-0
> > > Adapter: Virtual device
> > > Right Fan:   93450 RPM
> > > CPU:          +57.0ÂC
> > > temp2:        +57.0ÂC
> > > temp3:        +40.0ÂC
> > > temp4:       +127.0ÂC
> > >
> > > Right Fan and temp4 are for sure incorrect.
> >
> > Driver is reverse-engineered so this is best effort and some
> > tweaking may be needed.
>
> Ok, if driver is developed without any documentation, then it
> make sense that not working correctly on new machines...
>
> So is not there any documentation? I think that Dell released
> some SMM/BIOS code... But I'm not sure about it.

If you find it, please let us know.

Guenter


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