Re: [expert] lm sensors

2003-11-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 05:42 pm, Dick Gevers wrote:

> There`s easier ways to tackle that; IMHO. Proberbly failsafe is safe, but
> why bother, if you`re careful and consider beforehand what you do, go to
> init 1 and cd to where you want to make your changes. Of course, vi may be
> the preferred editor for that, but I didn`t have the time to learn it yet.
> Still mc has a pretty easy editor which will easily access what you need to
> change.

Well, at the point that the machine hard locks, keyboard doesn't respond, 
can't SSH into it and it becomes an effective doorstop, there is not much 
else to do but restart the machine and remove the lm_sensors script from the 
init process to troubleshoot the problem which is effectively what I did.  

When manually loading, it still causes the hard lock, again, no choice but to 
powercycle the machine which involves rebooting.

> I would follow following scenario: a. make sure sensorsd service is not
> running. b. Run the script provided, don`t allow it to modify your
> conf.modules or whichever they suggest. You already know which modules the
> script found, so check no modules are loaded, and if they that they are not
> added by modules.conf. If no modules are listed in the output of lsmod
> continue, if they are start service lm_sensors and with, for instance
> Gkrellm see if you get any readings. That means the kernel gives them
> direct. Only those modules which the kernel might not provide data output
> for should be loaded as modules via modules.conf. Before any adjustment to
> the modules stop the service and restart after added (or removing) any
> modules which do not show up useful values.

I tried manually loading an unloading one at a time but I might not have done 
it often enough to get the hard lock.  Now it appears that the culprit is 
linked to one of the modules and since removing it, I no longer have the 
problem.

> Compare your kernel logs, particularly /var/log/kernel/errors. It will show
> bus collisions, if any. I was lucky I did not get hard locks when I ran too
> many modules, but the logs filled alright.

Well, all I got was hard locks and there was nothing in the logs to show what 
was causing it.  I checked and there is nothing from the start until it shows 
the hard reboot with kernel reloading.

> >I have just edited my modules file to load the i2c-proc module at bootup
> >rather than letting it load from the lmsensors init script.  If anyone has
> >any suggestions for me, I would really appreciate it.
>
> So you appear to be infected by the reboot philosophy of certain O/S`s
> (sometimes I am guilty of similar behaviours to analyze prob ;-), but with
> this (unless hardlocked), I see no need to reboot.

Since the only issue that I spoke of was the hardlock, not sure I follow your 
analysis about my troubleshooting style.  I don't reboot my machine on a whim 
and certainly know how to init 1 and then back to init 3 if all I wanted was 
to test the init process.  

> >BTW, sensors.conf is stock and I did not add any lines to
> > /etc/modules.conf
>
> You should, that is the only way for the service which this package
> provides will read any data that are not provided by the kernel. Unless,
> naturally, the kernel provides *all* for your particular mobo.

Well, I will probably have to edit that eventually to get the temps for Vcore 
accurately reported but the stock conf file appears to be doing a great job 
so far on CPU temp, MB temp and fan speed.
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Re: [expert] lm sensors

2003-11-19 Thread Dick Gevers
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Aargh, and I thought I cancelled this one just in time. Please waste. The
next version is the final. Sorry.

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Re: [expert] lm sensors

2003-11-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 02:52 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:

> I only load the it87.  The lm75 driver may be causing your problem, there
> isn;t one on that board.  Also, on the Soyo, I only got accurate readings
> by specifying a socket type when modprobing the driver.  the differnet
> types are in the docs, but I figured out the Soyo is type 38.  The voltages
> are a little messy too.  This can be fixed by making a few changes to the
> sensors.conf file, but I haven't taken the time to figure out the
> adjustments and do it.  Here are the relevant lines that I added to my
> rc.local file.

Thanks very much for the info Greg.  That must have been it.  I removed the 
lm75 module and now it is starting and stopping fine.  Also, I moved the 
i2c-proc module startup to the actual /etc/modules file so that it is started 
automatically at bootup.  That appears to be much better for the script 
startup method and whether it helps or not, seems to be a little more 
elegant.

I also added an options line in /etc/modules.conf for the it87 temp_type=0x38 
option.  I will check later to see how accurate the temps are.

Again, thanks much for the info, it has probably saved me from a few more hard 
boots.

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Re: [expert] lm sensors

2003-11-19 Thread Dick Gevers
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Hello Bryan,

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:36:51 -0500, Bryan Phinney
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about [expert] lm sensors:

>Scenario, I installed lmsensors by RPM, ran sensors-detect and let it
>create the /etc/sysconfig/lmsensors configuration file.  When I restarted
>the computer, the lmsensors init script kicked off, showed loading modules
>and then nothing, hard lock.  I power cycled the machine, booted into
>failsafe mode, disabled lmsensors init script and went back into Linux.

There`s easier ways to tackle that; IMHO. Proberbly failsafe is safe, but
why bother, if you`re careful and consider beforehand what you do, go to
init 1 and cd to where you want to make your changes. Of course, vi may be
the preferred editor for that, but I didn`t have the time to learn it yet.
Still mc has a pretty easy editor which will easily access what you need to
change.

>I
>manually tried to load lmsensors init script and it hard locked again.  I
>rebooted, went back and tried to manually load the modules that are loading
>from the script and they loaded fine.  I then manually unloaded the modules
>and they also unloaded fine.
>
>I rewrote the lmsensors init script so that it was manually loading the 
>modules rather than pulling them from the /etc/sysconfig/lmsensors file.  I
>
>ran the script and it loaded the modules, then stopped the script and it 
>unloaded the modules.  When I went to restart it, the machine hard locked 
>again.


I would follow following scenario: a. make sure sensorsd service is not
running. b. Run the script provided, don`t allow it to modify your
conf.modules or whichever they suggest; you already know which modules the
script found, so check no modules are loaded, and if they are not see if
Gkrellm already gets some kernel data. If yes don`t put that stream in
modules.conf. If no kernel data is read add any of the modules per the
script to modules.conf. Before each step and after each erroneous load of
modules that don`t add a data stream that Gkrellm can read you have to
stop the service & unload the previous set of loaded modules.

Compare your kernel logs, particularly /var/log/kernel/errors. It will show
bus collisions, if any. I was lucky I did not get hard locks when I ran too
many modules, but the logs filled alright.

In 9.0 and 9.1 there were a couple of versions of the kernel that did not
have all sensors for *my* modules, I don`t know your board so with current
kernels it could PH be similar, though I estimate the chances extremely
slight, given the activity I read on Cooker of Mr. Thomas Backlund and
others with respect to the kernel packages.

>I have just edited my modules file to load the i2c-proc module at bootup 
>rather than letting it load from the lmsensors init script.  If anyone has 
>any suggestions for me, I would really appreciate it.

So you appear to be infected by the reboot philosophy of certain O/S`s
(sometimes I am guilty of similar behaviours to analyze probs. ;-), but
with this (unless hardlocked), I see no need to reboot.

>BTW, sensors.conf is stock and I did not add any lines to /etc/modules.conf

You should, that is the only way for the service which this package
provides will read any data that are not provided by the kernel. Unless,
naturally, the kernel provides *all* for your particular mobo.

Best of luck,
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Re: [expert] lm sensors

2003-11-19 Thread Dick Gevers
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:36:51 -0500, Bryan Phinney
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about [expert] lm sensors:

>Scenario, I installed lmsensors by RPM, ran sensors-detect and let it
>create the /etc/sysconfig/lmsensors configuration file.  When I restarted
>the computer, the lmsensors init script kicked off, showed loading modules
>and then nothing, hard lock.  I power cycled the machine, booted into
>failsafe mode, disabled lmsensors init script and went back into Linux.

There`s easier ways to tackle that; IMHO. Proberbly failsafe is safe, but
why bother, if you`re careful and consider beforehand what you do, go to
init 1 and cd to where you want to make your changes. Of course, vi may be
the preferred editor for that, but I didn`t have the time to learn it yet.
Still mc has a pretty easy editor which will easily access what you need to
change.

>I
>manually tried to load lmsensors init script and it hard locked again.  I
>rebooted, went back and tried to manually load the modules that are loading
>from the script and they loaded fine.  I then manually unloaded the modules
>and they also unloaded fine.
>
>I rewrote the lmsensors init script so that it was manually loading the 
>modules rather than pulling them from the /etc/sysconfig/lmsensors file.  I
>
>ran the script and it loaded the modules, then stopped the script and it 
>unloaded the modules.  When I went to restart it, the machine hard locked 
>again.


I would follow following scenario: a. make sure sensorsd service is not
running. b. Run the script provided, don`t allow it to modify your
conf.modules or whichever they suggest. You already know which modules the
script found, so check no modules are loaded, and if they that they are not
added by modules.conf. If no modules are listed in the output of lsmod
continue, if they are start service lm_sensors and with, for instance
Gkrellm see if you get any readings. That means the kernel gives them
direct. Only those modules which the kernel might not provide data output
for should be loaded as modules via modules.conf. Before any adjustment to
the modules stop the service and restart after added (or removing) any
modules which do not show up useful values.

Compare your kernel logs, particularly /var/log/kernel/errors. It will show
bus collisions, if any. I was lucky I did not get hard locks when I ran too
many modules, but the logs filled alright.

In 9.0 and 9.1 there were a couple of versions that did not have all sensors
for *my* modules, I don`t know your board so PH it could be similar.

>I have just edited my modules file to load the i2c-proc module at bootup 
>rather than letting it load from the lmsensors init script.  If anyone has 
>any suggestions for me, I would really appreciate it.

So you appear to be infected by the reboot philosophy of certain O/S`s
(sometimes I am guilty of similar behaviours to analyze prob ;-), but with
this (unless hardlocked), I see no need to reboot.

>BTW, sensors.conf is stock and I did not add any lines to /etc/modules.conf

You should, that is the only way for the service which this package
provides will read any data that are not provided by the kernel. Unless,
naturally, the kernel provides *all* for your particular mobo.

Best of luck,
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Re: [expert] lm sensors

2003-11-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 02:03 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote:

> in order to solve wich one kills your system, you should use the modprobe
> command
> and try to load one module at a time until it hangs...
Originally, the problem module was the adm1021 module and that was due to the 
options line included in /etc/modules.conf that was suggested by 
sensors-detect.  However, I removed that module and am no longer trying to 
load that one.

Now, I can manually load all of them and then unload all of them.  Running the 
script, I can also load all and then unload all, it is on the second attempt 
to load that I get problems.

I am going to work on this more tonight, I am beginning to wonder if the 
problem may stem from trying to unload the i2c-proc module along with the 
others.  For the most part, I don't see a reason to remove the proc module, 
even if you want to remove the individual sensor modules when shutting the 
system down.

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Re: [expert] lm sensors

2003-11-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 12:36 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> I have recently started trying to install lm sensors on my computer which
> has a Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra Platinum motherboard.  I have had very mixed
> results with the sensors including some very hard to diagnose hard locks on
> the machine when I attempt to load the sensor modules.
>
> Does anyone here have any experience working with lmsensors and want to
> take a crack at helping me figure out the problem.
>
I have a Soyo KT400 DUB and I have got sensors running without trouble.  I 
actually have the lm90 working by installing the version from cvs.  It reads 
the diode off the processor and is a much more accurate temp.

> Scenario, I installed lmsensors by RPM, ran sensors-detect and let it
> create the /etc/sysconfig/lmsensors configuration file.  When I restarted
> the computer, the lmsensors init script kicked off, showed loading modules
> and then nothing, hard lock.  I power cycled the machine, booted into
> failsafe mode, disabled lmsensors init script and went back into Linux.  I
> manually tried to load lmsensors init script and it hard locked again.  I
> rebooted, went back and tried to manually load the modules that are loading
> from the script and they loaded fine.  I then manually unloaded the modules
> and they also unloaded fine.
>
I only load the it87.  The lm75 driver may be causing your problem, there 
isn;t one on that board.  Also, on the Soyo, I only got accurate readings by 
specifying a socket type when modprobing the driver.  the differnet types are 
in the docs, but I figured out the Soyo is type 38.  The voltages are a 
little messy too.  This can be fixed by making a few changes to the 
sensors.conf file, but I haven't taken the time to figure out the adjustments 
and do it.  Here are the relevant lines that I added to my rc.local file.

# I2C adapter drivers
modprobe i2c-isa
modprobe i2c-viapro
# I2C chip drivers
modprobe it87 temp_type=0x38
modprobe lm90


> I rewrote the lmsensors init script so that it was manually loading the
> modules rather than pulling them from the /etc/sysconfig/lmsensors file.  I
> ran the script and it loaded the modules, then stopped the script and it
> unloaded the modules.  When I went to restart it, the machine hard locked
> again.
>
> I am currently trying to load only the i2c-viapro, i2c-isa, i2c-it87 and
> it2-lm75 modules and skipping the adm1021 and eeprom modules since my
> machine appears to have the most issues with the adm1021 module and I don't
> really need the eeprom one.
>
> I have just edited my modules file to load the i2c-proc module at bootup
> rather than letting it load from the lmsensors init script.  If anyone has
> any suggestions for me, I would really appreciate it.
>
I would just try without the lm75 loaded.  Before I installed the newer 
version, I was running without any problems.

> BTW, sensors.conf is stock and I did not add any lines to /etc/modules.conf
> except the alias for char-major-89 i2c-dev because the other adm1021 line
> should not be needed since I am not loading adm1021.
Yes, that is correct.

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Re: [expert] lm sensors

2003-11-19 Thread Thomas Backlund
From: "Bryan Phinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[...]
> I rewrote the lmsensors init script so that it was manually loading the
> modules rather than pulling them from the /etc/sysconfig/lmsensors file.
I
> ran the script and it loaded the modules, then stopped the script and it
> unloaded the modules.  When I went to restart it, the machine hard locked
> again.
>
> I am currently trying to load only the i2c-viapro, i2c-isa, i2c-it87 and
> it2-lm75 modules and skipping the adm1021 and eeprom modules since my
machine
> appears to have the most issues with the adm1021 module and I don't really
> need the eeprom one.
>

in order to solve wich one kills your system, you should use the modprobe
command
and try to load one module at a time until it hangs...

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[expert] lm sensors

2003-11-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
I have recently started trying to install lm sensors on my computer which has 
a Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra Platinum motherboard.  I have had very mixed 
results with the sensors including some very hard to diagnose hard locks on 
the machine when I attempt to load the sensor modules.

Does anyone here have any experience working with lmsensors and want to take a 
crack at helping me figure out the problem.

Scenario, I installed lmsensors by RPM, ran sensors-detect and let it create 
the /etc/sysconfig/lmsensors configuration file.  When I restarted the 
computer, the lmsensors init script kicked off, showed loading modules and 
then nothing, hard lock.  I power cycled the machine, booted into failsafe 
mode, disabled lmsensors init script and went back into Linux.  I manually 
tried to load lmsensors init script and it hard locked again.  I rebooted, 
went back and tried to manually load the modules that are loading from the 
script and they loaded fine.  I then manually unloaded the modules and they 
also unloaded fine.

I rewrote the lmsensors init script so that it was manually loading the 
modules rather than pulling them from the /etc/sysconfig/lmsensors file.  I 
ran the script and it loaded the modules, then stopped the script and it 
unloaded the modules.  When I went to restart it, the machine hard locked 
again.

I am currently trying to load only the i2c-viapro, i2c-isa, i2c-it87 and 
it2-lm75 modules and skipping the adm1021 and eeprom modules since my machine 
appears to have the most issues with the adm1021 module and I don't really 
need the eeprom one.

I have just edited my modules file to load the i2c-proc module at bootup 
rather than letting it load from the lmsensors init script.  If anyone has 
any suggestions for me, I would really appreciate it.

BTW, sensors.conf is stock and I did not add any lines to /etc/modules.conf 
except the alias for char-major-89 i2c-dev because the other adm1021 line 
should not be needed since I am not loading adm1021.

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Re: [expert] lm-sensors help on 1600xp!

2002-09-19 Thread Tom Brinkman

On Thursday September 19 2002 10:15 am, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira 
Freitas wrote:
> Em Seg 05 Ago 2002 05:56, s escreveu:
>
> Since Ago, 5th I've tried by all means to make this lm_sensors
> work.

> > So to recap:
> > 1.  install lm_sensors & libs
> > 2.  run:   sensors-detect
> > 3.  cp suggested modules only (ex.:  eeprom  as opposed to: 
> > modprobe eeprom) to /etc/modules
> > 4.  cp suggest device alias set up to /etc/modules.conf
> > 5.  reboot
> > 6.   run:  sensors   & see.  :)
> > 7.  config gkrellm.
> >
> > hth & our door is always open,
> > -s
>
> hope the door's still open! ;-(

   Do you have /etc/sensors.conf installed? After s's step 4., there's 
one last question in the sensors-detect script asking for permission to 
install this file.  Say [Y].  Also it's not necessary to reboot, you 
can just restart rc.local. As root run '/etc/rc.d/rc.local'

   OTOH, (I didn't see any of the original posts in this thread), are 
you sure you have mobo support for hardware monitoring?  Not all 
motherboards do. The sensors-detect script will tell you if you do or 
not. Also are you sure you have both lm-sensors rpms installed and that 
the versions match?   eg,
lm_sensors-2.6.4-4mdk
liblm_sensors1-2.6.4-4mdk
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Re: [expert] lm-sensors help on 1600xp!

2002-09-19 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas

Em Seg 05 Ago 2002 05:56, s escreveu:

Since Ago, 5th I've tried by all means to make this lm_sensors work.

No way till now!

Using mdk8.2! Any other suggestion?   [please!!!]

> So make sure you have lm_sensors & liblm_sensors installed.  Then as
> root run:  sensors-detect.   It will walk you thru some interactive
> choices, but the default answers are usually good, except where you
> need to pick isa or smbus.  Try smbus first (and if it don't suggest
> anything, then rerun adn pick isa.)
>
> It should give you a small list of modules that need to be loaded at
> boot.  It will tell you to put them in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but
> starting iwth 8.2, /etc/modules is a better spot or
> /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.   So put the modules only in /etc/modules (not
> including the modprobe command), or put the whole 'modprobe whatever'
> in /etc/rc.d/modules.   And sensors-detect will also give you an
> alias line for a dev to put in /etc/modules.conf.  C & P it exactly.
> Then either reboot or manually load up all those modules and run:
> sensorsto see if they are picking up.  If so, then just go into
> the config of gkrellm and set them up there (it will be obvious how
> to do it.  And it has setup instructions right there).
>
> So to recap:
> 1.  install lm_sensors & libs
> 2.  run:   sensors-detect
> 3.  cp suggested modules only (ex.:  eeprom  as opposed to:  modprobe
> eeprom) to /etc/modules
> 4.  cp suggest device alias set up to /etc/modules.conf
> 5.  reboot
> 6.   run:  sensors   & see.  :)
> 7.  config gkrellm.
>
> hth & our door is always open,
> -s

hope the door's still open! ;-(

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Re: [expert] lm-sensors install/use problems

2001-06-17 Thread Tom Brinkman


 On Sunday 17 June 2001 01:09 am, David E. Fox wrote:

>
> > that doesn't work for you, it's a hardware problem. Still, AMD
> > isn't going to fully support temperature monitoring till the Athlon
> > 4's come out
>
> Isn't that more of a mainboard issue than a CPU one?


   Not practically.  While decent motherboards socket A boards have
 monitoring chips/buses, the most important value .. the cpu core temp
 is bogus. Temps garnered from a thermistor (probe), no matter how well
 placed on the die, are a guess at best. Like tryin to measure the
 temperature of the wiring inside a wall, by pressing a thermometer
 against the sheetrock.
 
   With the cpu's core temp jumping 10 to 20°C in a heartbeat under
 instant load, a probe temp of 50°C from a Tbird or Duron is useless.  
 Even AMD docs now caution to add between 10 to 20°C to the reported
 probe temp under load to best _approximate_ the actual core temp. Even
 with this fudge factor, spikes in the core temp will not be seen.
 Overclockers have long known / used this rule of thumb.

   Current AMD cpu motherboards are ready, have been for some time, and
 the Athlon4's will have an internal diode (like Pentium processors
 have had all along) to accurately and usefully monitor the core temp.  
 The only way to sort'a kind'a accurately tell now if an AMD cpu is
 experiencing intolerable core temp spikes, is if the system randomly
 freezes or reboots (assuming everything else is in order).

   Until AMD implements accurate core monitoring, the best fix if
 you're concerned about cpu overheating is to underclock. Reduce the FSB
 about 5% or reduce the multiplier by .5   Of course, case temp should
 be kept at or near room temp, and a better than AMD 'retail' heatsink
 and fan with thermal grease (not pad) should be used. Another trick is
 to try an' reduce Vcore a little, no more than ~5% and increase IO
 voltage up to ~12%. 'Course now this is a motherboard issue, you havt'a
 have a decent enough one to support doin' all this ;>
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Re: [expert] lm-sensors install/use problems

2001-06-16 Thread David E. Fox

>   Mandrake 2.2.x kernels have had i2c support patched in even before 
> the 2.4.x kernels.  You might need to undo your efforts and just 
> install the appropriate  lm_utils ...-mdk rpm.  With 8.0 I'm using

I saw some of the necessary modules in lib/modules/2.2.17/misc but the
one I need apparently for this mainboard is via686a.o, which isn't in
that directory. Consequently, 'modprobe via686a.o' doesn't work.

I did as you suggested: I instaled the lm_utils rpm and there is little
difference. The one main difference is if I load the sensors.o modules
I get a different line of output from sensors: 'no sensors found' rather
than 'cannot read /proc file'. This seems significant. From 'modules-dep'
it would seem that sensors.o is dependent on via686a.o - but where is the
via686a.o file?

> that doesn't work for you, it's a hardware problem. Still, AMD isn't 
> going to fully support temperature monitoring till the Athlon 4's come 

Isn't that more of a mainboard issue than a CPU one? 

> Tom Brinkman  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
 

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Re: [expert] lm-sensors install/use problems

2001-06-16 Thread Tom Brinkman

On Saturday 16 June 2001 03:18 pm, David E. Fox wrote:

> I've rebuilt lm-sensors and installed it, 

> Any suggestions? I was hoping to upgrade to kernel 2.4.5, but in
> looking into the kernel config file I don't see anything that exactly
> matches the probe that my mainboard uses.

  Mandrake 2.2.x kernels have had i2c support patched in even before 
the 2.4.x kernels.  You might need to undo your efforts and just 
install the appropriate  lm_utils ...-mdk rpm.  With 8.0 I'm using
lm_utils-2.4.3_2.5.5-25mdk   Run 'sensors-detect' and it'll give you 
the lines you'll need to add to rc.local and modules.conf. I suspect if 
that doesn't work for you, it's a hardware problem. Still, AMD isn't 
going to fully support temperature monitoring till the Athlon 4's come 
out. 
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[expert] lm-sensors install/use problems

2001-06-16 Thread David E. Fox

Hi *,

I've been fiddling with lm-sensors 2.5.5 recently to try to get it to
work. I'm using Mandrake 7.2. I was using version 2.4.2 which does have
better support for sensors devices, and patched up to 2.4.5 (but that
didn't work - I got a 'ran out of input data, system halted' message, so
back to the Mandrake kernel 2.2.17-mdk).

I've rebuilt lm-sensors and installed it, but at present it can't 
access the proc file - permissions don't seem to matter, as I've run
the sensors binary as root. I've put in the suggested lines in rc.local and
in /etc/modules.conf that the sensors-detect program suggested. When
I run 'sensors' I get one line output, "can't read /proc file".

I've an ASUS A7V133 mainboard, and the sensors-detect program suggested
I use a via686a module, yet when I modprobe it, it says it can't be found.
I then look in /lib/modules/2.2.17-mdk/misc, sure enough it isn't there. I
peek in the chips directory, there is a via686a module but I can't bring the
module in, I get a lot of unresolved symbols. I've made sure to run 'depmod 
-a'.

Any suggestions? I was hoping to upgrade to kernel 2.4.5, but in looking into
the kernel config file I don't see anything that exactly matches the probe
that my mainboard uses. 



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Re: [expert] lm sensors and i2c

2001-02-03 Thread Don

I use this program to do that on the Abit BP6 system (health)
and when you untar the program you will find instructions on how to set it up

Don 

On Friday 02 February 2001 17:41, you wrote:
> "J . A . Magallon" wrote:
> > On 02.02 PBone wrote:
> > > I am trying to get temperature monitoring for my athlon/epox
> > > 8kta2/Mandrake 7.2  system.
> > > I have been to the lm_sensors site but the latest Mandrake rpms are for
> > > Mandrake 7.0.
> > > Is there an easy (ie rpm) way to install lm_sensors- (I have had low
> > > success rate trying to compile programs under Manrake 7.2)
> >
> > cooker: kernel 2.4 + lm_sensors
> >
> > --
> > J.A. Magallon  $> cd
> > pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  $>
> > more beer
> >
> > Linux werewolf 2.4.1-ac1 #2 SMP Fri Feb 2 00:19:04 CET 2001 i686
>
> The reason you are having problems compiling packages under Mandrake 7.2
> for LM7.0 is because the mandrake packages are compiled with gcc 2.95
> and higher while LM7.0 is compiled with gcc 2.72 (or something or other.
> I refuse to dig up my 7.0 disk to look to be sure. Must move forward...
> always) or something and egcs. gcc 2.95 was the first implementation of
> gcc and egcs being combined into one.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Al

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Re: [expert] lm sensors and i2c

2001-02-02 Thread Altoine B.

"J . A . Magallon" wrote:
> 
> On 02.02 PBone wrote:
> > I am trying to get temperature monitoring for my athlon/epox 8kta2/Mandrake
> > 7.2  system.
> > I have been to the lm_sensors site but the latest Mandrake rpms are for
> > Mandrake 7.0.
> > Is there an easy (ie rpm) way to install lm_sensors- (I have had low success
> > rate trying to compile programs under Manrake 7.2)
> >
> 
> cooker: kernel 2.4 + lm_sensors
> 
> --
> J.A. Magallon  $> cd pub
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  $> more beer
> 
> Linux werewolf 2.4.1-ac1 #2 SMP Fri Feb 2 00:19:04 CET 2001 i686
> 

The reason you are having problems compiling packages under Mandrake 7.2
for LM7.0 is because the mandrake packages are compiled with gcc 2.95
and higher while LM7.0 is compiled with gcc 2.72 (or something or other.
I refuse to dig up my 7.0 disk to look to be sure. Must move forward...
always) or something and egcs. gcc 2.95 was the first implementation of
gcc and egcs being combined into one.

Cheers,
-- Al




Re: [expert] lm sensors and i2c

2001-02-02 Thread J . A . Magallon


On 02.02 PBone wrote:
> I am trying to get temperature monitoring for my athlon/epox 8kta2/Mandrake 
> 7.2  system.
> I have been to the lm_sensors site but the latest Mandrake rpms are for 
> Mandrake 7.0. 
> Is there an easy (ie rpm) way to install lm_sensors- (I have had low success 
> rate trying to compile programs under Manrake 7.2)
> 

cooker: kernel 2.4 + lm_sensors
 
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[expert] lm sensors and i2c

2001-02-02 Thread PBone

I am trying to get temperature monitoring for my athlon/epox 8kta2/Mandrake 
7.2  system.
I have been to the lm_sensors site but the latest Mandrake rpms are for 
Mandrake 7.0. 
Is there an easy (ie rpm) way to install lm_sensors- (I have had low success 
rate trying to compile programs under Manrake 7.2)

Alternatively is there another hardware monitor which doesn't need lm_sensors 
but can read info from the via chip that's on the Epox KTA-2

Thanks

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