Has anyone managed to find/make a hardware monitoring program for the Abit AN7 [or any other µGuru based motherboard]? I know that with Windows the only option is Abit's own prog, which is pretty bad, & that Abit are deliberately witholding the necessary info from makers of 3rd party software. I know that the Linux community has been known to overcome situations like this, & just wondered if anyone knows of any progress that's been made.

The AN7 does have a more conventional hardware monitoring chip [Winbond W83627HF - used on a bunch of other Abit mobos as well], but it seems that its output is somehow linked to, or passed through the µGuru chip.

Not currently using any distro, but thinking of trying Mandrake 10.

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I would post a link to the data sheet for the chip used for the µGuru, but apparently I haven't made enough posts to be allowed to do that! I don't know whether just knowing the make/model of the chip will be any use, but it's a Winbond W83L950D
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Come on, I know there's at least a couple of people on this fprum that use an Abit AN7 with Linux - hasn't anyone at least tried to get hardware monitoring working with it? Even a "sorry, I've tried several things, but couldn't get it to work" would be better than no reply at all.

Yeah, support for the AN7 is a bit thin on the ground but thanks to Alsa/Kernel 2.6.5 I finally enjoy 5.1 output from the on-board sound

Anyway, it just so happens that I was trying to setup lmsensors this evening and it almost worked.

The modules I loaded are:
eeprom (RAM) detects the DIMMS correctly but w83627hf's output is nonsense (-1C CPU) but at least it output something.

The next step is to email the developers etc. but I'm not sure if I can be bothered. There is/was a ticket for the AN7 on their Self-Serve Support(tm) system but nothing seems to have come of it.