lm_sensors

[Craig]

Daniel Stonier wrote:

> You may need to edit your modules.conf and rc.local
> Have you i2c-proc showing up with an 'lsmod'?
> I added a few modprobes to the end of my rc.local and
> an alias in the modules.conf to get it going.
>
> I had problems with FC's rpm's. Ended up removing the lm_sensors rpm and
> downloading the latest i2c and lm_sensors tarballs and followed the
> following procedure without any hassles.
>
> - Unpack both tarballs.
> - Make, Make install on i2c first, then lm_sensors second.
> - depmod -a
> - Check /usr/local/bin is in ld.so.conf
> - ldconfig
> - Run /sbin/sensors-detect and update modules.conf and rc.local
>   as directed.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
> On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:08:30 -0500, Craig <cs007fc at wowway.com> wrote:
>
>> OK, I know people have talked/questioned/answered this before but the 
>> archives are down again and I can't for the life of me remember (I'm 
>> having a mental meltdown today) what I need to do. When booting up 
>> the lm_sensors fail because it can't find /proc:
>>
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa lm_sensors: Starting up sensors:
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel: to serial-pci-info at lists.sourceforge.net.
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel: ttyS04 at port 0xd400 (irq = 16) is a 
>> 16550A
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel: NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM 
>> disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver 
>> Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed 
>> for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa lm_sensors: Can't access /proc file
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel: VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0f.1
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel: VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel: VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will 
>> probe irqs later
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa lm_sensors:
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel: VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 
>> controller on pci00:0f.1
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa lm_sensors: Unable to find i2c bus information;
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel:     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x9000-0x9007, BIOS 
>> settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa lm_sensors: For 2.6 kernels, make sure you have 
>> mounted sysfs!
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel:     ide1: BM-DMA at 0x9008-0x900f, BIOS 
>> settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa lm_sensors: For older kernels, make sure you 
>> have done 'modprobe i2c-proc'!
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa kernel: hda: IDE DVD-ROM 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM 
>> drive
>> Mar  4 13:18:23 alopa rc: Starting lm_sensors:  failed
>
Nope, i2c-proc is not loaded at all. :-(
Where did you find lm_sensors and i2c sources, my search came up empty.

Craig