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CM4 IO board PWM fan controller driver
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I2C needs to be enabled - maybe add to README? #9

Closed geerlingguy closed 2 years ago

geerlingguy commented 3 years ago

I wanted to note that on a fresh Raspberry Pi OS install, I also had to go in and enable I2C for the driver to work:

# Enable I2C bus 1.
dtparam=i2c_vc=on

Should this be documented in the README? Or is it actually not necessary? I didn't see the driver load in dmesg if I didn't have this setting enabled in /boot/config.txt.

sdwilsh commented 3 years ago

My Waveshare CM4-DUAL-ETH-BASE does require that, and they document it on their product wiki that it's required in order to access the chip. Is this board dependent (although I bet most, if not all, need this)?

neggles commented 2 years ago

Sorry I missed this! All my notification settings are messed up, apparently...

Yes, this is very board-dependent - anything which starts with the CM4IO board as a base will probably use the same settings it does, though. IIRC the IO board manual includes a note about which I2C bus the chip is on, but I vaguely recall having some trouble finding out the exact config.txt options needed so I will add a note about this to the README.

I wasn't expecting this driver to be so long-lived, tbh - I thought the Traverse guys would upstream this or the Pi Foundation would've add their own driver to raspberrypi/linux by now...

neggles commented 2 years ago

OK, it took me absolutely ages, but, fixed in 9795410 😄

geerlingguy commented 2 years ago

Haha, as is a theme in all my repos... "better late than never!"