lm_sensors is too old to work with a 2 year old asus motherboard , why?

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 22 September 2009 05:01:35 Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On 09/21/09 14:56, quoth Anne Wilson:
> > On Monday 21 September 2009 16:17:25 Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Greetings;
> >>
> >> I am trying to get usable data from an ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe motherboard.
> >>
> >> The existing lm_sensors install can't be removed due to dependency hell,
> >>  but the tar.bz2 package looks as if it will install right over the rpm.
> >>
> >> I have not done that yet, but whats chances we could get the version
> >> 3.0.2 in the F10 repos replaced with the 3.1.1 from the lm_sensors site?
> >
> > LM_sensors has always had problems getting useful info out of Asus
> > motherboards.  Believe me, I first met the problem about 5-6 years ago. 
> > There is a text file comes with it that gives you as much info as it can
> > about working with mobos from different vendors, but after trying
> > everything I could I never got more than one sensor out of it.
>
> Works fine for my A8N-SLI Premium
>
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It's a couple of years since I tried it with an Asus motherboard, so things 
may have improved, or specific models may be better than others.  As always, 
it's difficult to tell without actually buying one, by which time it's too late.

Anne
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