[ale] lm-sensors+modules-kernel?

[Charles Shapiro]

I'm not sure how much I can really help you on this. But I've got some
experience with the lm-sensors stuff.

We are using lm-sensors on a 2.4.18 kernel. I just compiled the kernel
lm-sensors stuff as it came, selecting to put them in as modules. It
worked just fahn. I had to muddle around finding the exact module to
install, but there's a script file to make that pretty easy. We're using
a heavily tweaked RedHat 7.2 system, but that  shouldn't be too relevant
to this problem.

The only slight gotchas are that the configuration file
(/etc/sensors.conf) has to be tweaked for different hardware and even
different cases. It's easy to get numbers out of the system, but a
little harder to decide what they mean. A lot of different variables go
into deciding what the correct operating temperature readings should be
for the sensors on your MB -- you'll probably need to check with your
vendor to get really good numbers. If that's impossible, you'll need to
gather some operational experience to decide what a bad situation looks
like.

-- CHS


On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 10:19, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> Ok, got a fun one here :>
> 
>   We want to test out lm-sensors as some servers our group is running
> has monitorable chips.  Things are a bit more fun though.
> 
>   None of the servers have /usr/src/linux or the kernel source on them.
> All kernels are compiled on another machine all together and then the
> kernel image and system map are rsync'd out to the servers.  No I can't
> go into why, that's a very small part of a big picture that does make
> sense.   I am though stuck dealing with this.
> 
>   Reading the lm-sensors install guide the drivers, i2c package, etc have 
> to be installed as modules.  I'm currently mucking with kernel 2.4.18.
> Is anyone using this kernel with sensors?  Do I have to download the
> package or can I use the kernel i2c bits as is?  If I compile them into
> the kernel and then install the lm-sensors package (heavily tweaked
> debian install) should all run right?  Getting a kernel out there takes,
> um, time...  Trying to save myself 2 weeks to find out it won't work on
> this setup.
> 
> Feel free to give me thoughts, opinions, examples, the riot act,
> whatever.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> :wq!
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