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From: Andrea Ferraris <andrea_ferraris@××××××.it>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] lm-sensors problem
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:06:08
Message-Id: 042f01c3e97c$75fcbca0$0eaf1997@afer
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] lm-sensors problem by Stewart Honsberger
1 Thx very much for your information [bad capacitors of K7S5A].
2
3 > > Now I've compiled the 2.6.1 kernel and installed and compiled the
4 > > lm-sensors for such kernel and they works, it is, sensors-detect worked
5 > > and now they can show many wrong data and use the ISA module, but
6 > > that seems normal, I have to adjust that behaviour with some parameters
7 > > to pass to the i2c modules.
8 >
9 > What steps did you undergo to merge lm-sensors with 2.6.1? I was under
10 > the impression that the ebuild merged both kernel modules and userland
11 > tools, and the lm-sensors project page indicates that kernel modules
12 > will not as yet work with 2.6.x. Is the ebuild intelligent, or did you
13 > perform a manual installation? If the latter, we should get the ebuild
14 > updated pronto so that it becomes intelligent.
15
16 Almost automatically and automagically ;-)
17 It is
18 # emerge sys-apps/lmsensor.<the_right_number_that_i_dont_remember>
19 If you have a portage tree up to date (emerge sync), the right lm-sernsors
20 ebuild is there.
21 http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?lm-sensors-2.8.1
22 Ok, the right number should be 2.8.1
23
24 Regards,
25 Andrea Ferraris