Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

["B. Stia" <usr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 22 August 2005 06:41 am, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
> ken schreef:
> > Koenraad Lelong wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > I'm no engineer on these things, but my understanding is that it
> > must first be recognized by the BIOS.  This can be determined by
> > looking at "dmesg".  If you have "hwinfo" installed, read the
> > manpage for it (it's simple) and run it to make sure that the
> > sensor is seen there.
> >
> > Then it's a matter of configuring the module(s) to connect to the
> > hardware.  This is always a matter of experimentation for me.  Web
> > searches sometimes help.
> >
> > hth,
> > ken
>
> They are recognized by the BIOS, in the BIOS-setup there is a screen
> : hardware monitoring. That displays three different tempratures and
> the speed of three fans. Also a number of voltages are monitored. Are
> dmesg or hwinfo capable of handling I2C devices ? The whole purpose
> of "lm-sensors" is to provide drivers for applications.
> sensors-detect tries to detect what drivers (kernel-modules) are
> needed. Then you have to make those drivers available at boot and
> start the "sensors" application. Well, the drivers are available
> (lsmod shows them) but the "sensors" application complains about "no
> sensors".
> --
Has there been any resolution to this. Had been following this thread 
until it's abrupt stop. Have the exact same problem but the mo-bo is a
MSI K8T (939AMD)

Bob