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  1. Kernel driver i2c-viapro
  2. Supported adapters:
  3. * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596A/B
  4. Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website
  5. * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686A/B
  6. Datasheet: Sometimes available at the VIA website
  7. * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235, VT8237
  8. Datasheet: available on request from Via
  9. Authors:
  10. Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>,
  11. Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>,
  12. Kyösti Mälkki <kmalkki@cc.hut.fi>,
  13. Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>
  14. Module Parameters
  15. -----------------
  16. * force: int
  17. Forcibly enable the SMBus controller. DANGEROUS!
  18. * force_addr: int
  19. Forcibly enable the SMBus at the given address. EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!
  20. Description
  21. -----------
  22. i2c-viapro is a true SMBus host driver for motherboards with one of the
  23. supported VIA southbridges.
  24. Your lspci -n listing must show one of these :
  25. device 1106:3050 (VT82C596 function 3)
  26. device 1106:3051 (VT82C596 function 3)
  27. device 1106:3057 (VT82C686 function 4)
  28. device 1106:3074 (VT8233)
  29. device 1106:3147 (VT8233A)
  30. device 1106:8235 (VT8231)
  31. devide 1106:3177 (VT8235)
  32. devide 1106:3227 (VT8237)
  33. If none of these show up, you should look in the BIOS for settings like
  34. enable ACPI / SMBus or even USB.