no sensors detected in gkrellm

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 05 March 2006 09:02, hicham wrote:
>On 3/5/06, Alessandro Brezzi <alessandro.brezzi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2006/3/5, hicham <hichamlinux at gmail.com>:
>> > Hello
>> > I've went thru archives on getting gkrellm displayin cpu temp.,
>> > Fan speed
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > I've used " sensors-detect" to get lm-sensors running, but it
>> > doesn't seem to be enough to get gkrellm sensors works
>>
>>  do you reboot after sensors-detect?
>
>yes I did
>here is the  sensors-detect summary output :
>######################################################################
>### Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done.
> Just press ENTER to continue:
>
>Driver `to-be-written' (should be inserted):
>  Detects correctly:
>  * ISA bus address 0x0290 (Busdriver `i2c-isa')
>    Chip `Winbond W83627EHF Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9)
>
>
> I will now generate the commands needed to load the I2C modules.
> Sometimes, a chip is available both through the ISA bus and an I2C
> bus. ISA bus access is faster, but you need to load an additional
> driver module for it. If you have the choice, do you want to use the
> ISA bus or the I2C/SMBus (ISA/smbus)? ISA
>
>To make the sensors modules behave correctly, add these lines to
>/etc/modprobe.conf:
>
>#----cut here----
># I2C module options
>alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
>#----cut here----
>--------------------------------------------------> " Those I've added
>in  /etc/modprobe.conf "
>
>To load everything that is needed, add this to some /etc/rc* file:
>
>#----cut here----
># I2C adapter drivers
>modprobe i2c-isa
># I2C chip drivers
># no driver for Winbond W83627EHF Super IO Sensors yet
># sleep 2 # optional
>/usr/bin/sensors -s # recommended
>#----cut here----
>--------------> " I don't know where to put those above lines which
>/etc/rc*  ?"

Near the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local

>WARNING! If you have some things built into your kernel, the list
> above will contain too many modules. Skip the appropriate ones! You
> really should try these commands right now to make sure everything is
> working properly. Monitoring programs won't work until it's done.
>
>Do you want to generate /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors? (YES/no): YES
>Copy prog/init/lm_sensors.init to /etc/rc.d/init.d/lm_sensors
>for initialization at boot time.
>######################################################################
>####

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