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From: r.marek@assembler.cz (Rudolf Marek)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:56:10 +0000
Subject: [lm-sensors] No smbus on asus w1n laptop in spite of quirk > no
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Hello

> Ah..!? On kubuntu 6.10, i use ksensors and it seems that it can monitor 
> temperature from acpi and from lm_sensors. Both lm85 and thermal modules are 
> loaded. The 2 temperatures are consistent : they are almost the same. And i 
> had no crash.
> And, i don't have yet ksensors on suse 10.2 but both thermal and lm85 modules 
> are loaded and no crash detected.
> What is the risk ?

You may read completely wrong temperature, hang the bus, stop the fan, force 
processor to throttle to prevent overheat. I think no real damage will happen, 
but be careful.

Rudolf