Sensors and recent motherboards

[parishd]

On 1/6/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 06 January 2007 14:00, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> > >On all those boards I could get cpu, disk and ethernet throughput, but I
> > > could not get either temperatures or fan speeds.  On this one, temp 1
> > > registers as -1.0C and temp2 as 0.0C.  On the second Asus both registered
> > > as 0.0C.  I know I have had to edit sensors.conf in the past to tune
> > > temperatures, but at least there was documented requirements for the Asus
> > > motherboards.  I haven't found anything at all useful about sensors and
> > > the Abit boards.
> > >
> > >Any ideas?
> >
> > This is the place to look at:
> >
> > http://www.lm-sensors.org/
> >
> > Try to contact the developers there. They are the best people to
> > answer your questions.
> >
> For a moment I thought I had struck gold :-)  There is a link to
> http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Configurations and there, sure enough, is a
> configuration file for Abit KV8Pro.  Unfortunately, although I replaced the
> old config file with this, I still get the same (lack of) readings.
>
> Nevertheless, this page is worthy of a bookmark, I think.
>
> Anne
>

I got my configuration file (for an Asus M2N32-SLI mb) from
lm-sensors.org, and it didn't work with the current lm-sensors in the
FC6 repositories (lm_sensors-2.10.0-3.1 according to my system).  I
fixed it by installing lm_sensors-2.10.1 from source, again obtained
from lm-sensors.org.

Daniel