Re: [blfs-support] lm_sensors-3.3.5
On 5 June 2015 at 22:59, Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm wrote: Maybe I've partially answered my own question. I just ran sensors- detect again and I noticed that at one stage there was a message: Failed to load module I2C-i801. However, this driver is already built into my kernel. Does the message mean that lm_sensors doesn't recognise a driver unless it's a module? The lm-sensors package is problematical. It doesn't play well with ACPI. You'll have to use a boot parameter so ACPI will use lax restrictions. ACPI of course suggests that's dangerous. There is an acpi package that provides temperatures, but I've yet to get a completely satisfactory installation. But I haven't beat on it enough yet--other fish... Thanks for the replies. The point where lm_sensors complains is: Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? When I type yes, it replies: Using driver 'I2c-i801' for device :00:1f.3: Intel 82801G ICH7. This is immediately followed by: Failed to load module I2c-i801 As I've said already, I've built this driver into the kernel. What I might do (if I can be bothered) is temporarily enable module support in the kernel and make the I2c-i801 driver a module. Then run sensors-detect again and see if lm_sensors gives any further information, which I doubt. Paul, what was the ACPI package to which you were referring, and the boot parameter? As a side issue, despite recently enabling penguins they never appeared, until fiddling with lm_sensors that is. Now they appear sporadically. I can't see how it is anything to do with lm_sensors, but something must be broken somewhere, illustrated, mainly, by the wrong screen size being delivered to the console. A further question: has anybody successfully built libx86? Richard -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-support] lm_sensors-3.3.5
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Richard Melville richard.melvill...@googlemail.com wrote: Thanks for the replies. The point where lm_sensors complains is: Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? When I type yes, it replies: Using driver 'I2c-i801' for device :00:1f.3: Intel 82801G ICH7. This is immediately followed by: Failed to load module I2c-i801 When I was trying to find a right kernel configuration for LFS build on the new HW, I run Ubuntu (or any other distro) from USB stick initially and check what modules were loaded. It makes work identifying a right driver much easier. ∕alexey -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-support] lm_sensors-3.3.5
Paul, what was the ACPI package to which you were referring, google acpi-1.6.tar.gz Pick yer poison. You can also find it at ftp://ftp.osuosl.org(/pub/gentoo/distfiles) I use that a lot! It's close. and the boot parameter? Let see, google acpi lax lm-sensors http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ/Chapter3 My sensors have stopped working in kernel 2.6.31 ... If you want to restore the old behaviour (which might be dangerous) add: acpi_enforce_resources=lax to the kernel cmdline when booting (or add it in grub.conf to make this permanent). ... The point I was too subtly trying to make is don't count on lm- sensors, use acpi. -- Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm Rogers' Second Law: Everything you do communicates. (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-support] UPower
On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 15:25 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: Name me one thing marketing ever got right! (And I'll name a hundred it screwed up.) Unfair... you get the easy side of that challenge... :) Simon. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-support] lm_sensors-3.3.5
On Sat, 6 Jun 2015 12:43:59 +0100 Richard Melville richard.melvill...@googlemail.com wrote: The point where lm_sensors complains is: Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? When I type yes, it replies: Using driver 'I2c-i801' for device :00:1f.3: Intel 82801G ICH7. This is immediately followed by: Failed to load module I2c-i801 As I've said already, I've built this driver into the kernel. It may depend on the specific driver. I've got an older system using lm_sensors 3.3.2 and it does not complain that a driver is built statically in the kernel. The problem may be confined to sensors-detect's detection routine and not the sensors utility itself, at least once its config files are setup. I found this from 2012: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-817433-start-0.html which refers to an article closely related to this one: http://jviz.research.iat.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php?title=HOWTO_Setup_lm_sensors Be forewarned that the information there may be out of date. That said, they suggest putting LOADMODULES=no INITSENSORS=yes in /etc/sensors.conf or /etc/sensors3.conf for kernels in which everything is compiled in. You can also make your local changes in files located in the /etc/sensors.d directory. If sensors-detect always tries to load a module rather than first checking if the driver is available, I'd consider that to be a bug that should be reported. Cheers, Mike Shell -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-support] lm_sensors-3.3.5
On 6 June 2015 at 19:00, Michael Shell li...@michaelshell.org wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 2015 12:43:59 +0100 Richard Melville richard.melvill...@googlemail.com wrote: The point where lm_sensors complains is: Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? When I type yes, it replies: Using driver 'I2c-i801' for device :00:1f.3: Intel 82801G ICH7. This is immediately followed by: Failed to load module I2c-i801 As I've said already, I've built this driver into the kernel. It may depend on the specific driver. I've got an older system using lm_sensors 3.3.2 and it does not complain that a driver is built statically in the kernel. The problem may be confined to sensors-detect's detection routine and not the sensors utility itself, at least once its config files are setup. I found this from 2012: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-817433-start-0.html which refers to an article closely related to this one: http://jviz.research.iat.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php?title=HOWTO_Setup_lm_sensors Be forewarned that the information there may be out of date. That said, they suggest putting LOADMODULES=no INITSENSORS=yes in /etc/sensors.conf or /etc/sensors3.conf for kernels in which everything is compiled in. You can also make your local changes in files located in the /etc/sensors.d directory. If sensors-detect always tries to load a module rather than first checking if the driver is available, I'd consider that to be a bug that should be reported. Thanks for the detailed reply Michael. I should have said that everything appears to be working OK, the relevant files have been created and both the sensors and the sensord binaries has been built. I was just querying the sensors-detect warning about the module not being loaded when the driver has been built-in, and wondering if that was stopping the detection of further drivers. I don't think that's the case though. I agree that it does appear to be a bug. Your second link, the setup HOWTO was useful. Thanks again. Richard -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
