How to get sensors (i2c?) working with Fedora 2.

Ted Kaczmarek tedkaz at optonline.net
Wed Sep 15 11:39:45 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 06:42, Kent Nyberg wrote:
> Hello,
> My computer has those nice sensors that can report CPU temperature, fan
> speed etc. I would like to get those working.
> First of all, how come kudzu do not configure them? Is tgere a problem
> with enabling them as default?
> 
> My system runs very hot, although i do not think there is a fault of my
> hardware, more the cause of lots of hardware and maybe a to small fan on
> the cpu. I have configured the bios to halt my system when it runs to
> hot, but lets say my system always is about one degree below the limit,
> that cant be to good can it, even though the system is not complaining.
> Hey, i don't even know if the bios actually can do the system-halt when
> running Linux. :)
> 
> So, the specs:  (dont know if something more is needed, but VIA cant
> change the sensor-chipset that much from release to release, can they?)
> 
> If the lspci output is not enough, i do belive this is an Asus
> mainboard. Not sure of more though :)
> 
> [root at Leviatan setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu]# /sbin/lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP]
> Host Bridge
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge
> 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev 80)
> 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev 80)
> 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
> Controller (rev 80)
> 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
> 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
> 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
> 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
> 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
> (rev 74)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA
> TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 11)
> [root at Leviatan setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu]
> 
I am guessing due the bugginess of many of the sensors it is not done in
kudzu. 

First off do you have lm_sensors installed?

If so run sensors-detect and follow its instructions.

Also check the lm_sensors web site as they almost always have the info I
need relating to sensors.

Tes







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