Talk:Lm sensors

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[edit] <M> ISA Bus support

i am too new too wiki so i will only post here :) the above mentioned module did it for me. it was neither mentioned in the wiki nor in the kernel doku.
its in Device Drivers ---> I2C support ---> <M> ISA Bus support . btw: i am using a via8233a and it works great

[edit] Nforce 2

I've got a board with nforce 2, it keeps mentioning this "eeprom". Anyone know what it is?

• Found it :

Symbol: SENSORS_EEPROM [=m] x

 x Prompt: EEPROM reader                                                   x  
 x   Defined at drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig:28                               x  
 x   Depends on: I2C && EXPERIMENTAL                                       x  
 x   Location:                                                             x  
 x     -> Device Drivers                                                   x  
 x       -> I2C support                                                    x  
 x         -> I2C support (I2C [=y])                                       x  
 x           -> Miscellaneous I2C Chip support                             x  
 x

[edit] Unclear Kernel requirements

lm_sensors seems to require the Module 'Hardware Monitoring support' even if you found your Sensors under 'I2C Hardware Bus support'.

Seen at Kernel linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7 and sys-apps/lm_sensors-2.10.0

Without 'Hardware Monitoring support' the emerge will not take place. I put this Information here because the Wiki Page doesn't state clearly enough this requirement.

Hardware Monitoring Support --->
<M> Hardware Monitoring support
<M> Choose the appropriate module(s) for your hardware

should be:

I2C support  --->
<M> I2C support
<M>   I2C device interface
      I2C Hardware Bus support  --->
      <M> Choose the appropriate module(s) for your hardware
Hardware Monitoring Support --->
<M> Hardware Monitoring support

Hardware Monitoring Support --->
<M> Choose the appropriate module(s) for your hardware

[edit] http://mbm.livewiredev.com/mobolist.html linked page is down

this page had the list of sensors & mobo's supported by mbm; domain name expired. Is there another source of this info? Thanks from a n00b

[edit] Update this guide to recent kernel and recent lm_sensors package, prune old stuff

This guide is quite a mess. There is 2.4 stuff, there are notes for old kernel and the guidance is also not very good. Is it OK for you all, if I update this guide to kernel 2.6.22 and >=lm_sensors-2.10.3? Arlsair

• Please, do! Very much appreciated! Mimosinnet
  • OK. A draft is already in the pipe, but I just wait to get lm_sensors-2.10.3 stable, see Bug #189908. Arlsair

== If the necessary modules are loaded, they put the hw info in /sys/class/hwmon, at least with the recent (2.6.23+ ) kernels without lm_sensors. Conky can interpret this data properly. Eg. CPU core voltage: ${color lightyellow}${hwmon 1 vol 0}V Would read the CPU core voltage from /sys/class/hwmon1/device/in0_input file (see man conky).