Well, if anybody is interested, I got vt1211 to actually work for Dapper and display a sensor readout. If anybody needs to know, PM me It doesn't help that the driver wasn't even included in the kernel even as high as 2.6.16. It's useless, though. The temp readout comes out completely wrong. The default equation in their vt1211 chip section always comes out with a negative number, and I'd have to take some spreadsheet data to try to find the linear equation to convert the raw data because a simple scaling factor (+x, -x) won't do it. Which means constantly restarting my system to read the correct values in the bios setup... yikes. Oh, and every value generates and alarm for Proc. temp, even if it is below the temp_high value, which somehow changes every time I change the calculate statement for the associated temperature. what the heck??

the people who make lm-sensors really need to get their act together. A week of work to get to this point and then have to give up is depressing.