Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (83 mails)

[Bruno Friedmann <bruno@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/13/2010 07:19 PM, Dimitar Popov wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was asked from the openSUSE forums to ask my question here. So here it is: 
> I 
> read in the README.txt of the nvidia linux driver the following:
>
> "NVIDIA has noted that in some distibutions, i2c support is enabled. However,
> the Linux kernel module i2c-core.o (2.4) or i2c-core.ko (2.6), which provides
> the export infrastructure, was not shipped. In this case, you will need to
> build the i2c support module. For directions on how to build and install your
> kernel's i2c support, refer to your distribution's documentation for
> configuring, building, and installing the kernel and associated modules."
>
> So I checked if I have i2c-core.ko and I noticed that it is not present as a 
> built module.
>
> Is there any reason why the module is not shipped with the 2.6.36 desktop 
> kernel from the HEAD repository, but it is present in the sources?
>
> Does it make sense to use this module, if I want to monitor the temperature 
> of 
> my GPU with sensors?
>
> How can I compile only that module and install it?
>
> Thank you for your help in advance!
>
> Greetings,
> Dimitar
>
> P.S. I'm terribly sorry for the double post! I used another e-mail address :)


Actually under 11.4 ( 2.6.36-18 ) I didn't have i2c-core loaded
I run with the 260.19.21 nvidia .run installer

and I can get all information from my quadro with nvidia tools

nvidia-smi -a

==============NVSMI LOG==============


Timestamp                       : Sat Nov 13 20:34:09 2010

Driver Version                  : 260.19.21


GPU 0:
        Product Name            : Quadro FX 360M
        PCI Device/Vendor ID    : 42d10de
        PCI Location ID         : 0:1:0
        Board Serial            : 18217288671030
        Display                 : Connected
        Temperature             : 56 C
        Fan Speed               : 100%
        Utilization
            GPU                 : 0%
            Memory              : 19%


the nvdock package picked from packman for example & the nvidia-setting tool 
works too.



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