[lm-sensors] no sensors found beyond eeproms - OEM laptop -

[rhp.lpt@gmail.com (rhp)]

16-sep-05

Hello Jean:

I guess that settles it. I'll just have to live with what ACPI offers.

Many thanks for your help.

Brgds
Bob


On 9/15/05, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> > I already have the thermal_zone:
> > ls /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/
> > cooling_mode  polling_frequency  state  temperature  trip_points
> >
> > Additionally, GKRELLM recognizes and displays the cpu temperature.
> 
> Most likely it reads it straight from
> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature.
> 
> > However, I tried your suggestion:
> >
> > 45 torus:~> sudo modprobe thermal
> > FATAL: Module thermal not found.
> >
> > (So I guess the thermal zone is set up on this machine using a different
> > module?).
> 
> No, it simply means that you have it built into your kernel. If not, you
> wouldn't have a /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0 directory.
> 
> > 49 torus:~> sudo i2cdump 0 0x6a
> > (...)
> > 50 torus:~> sudo i2cdump 0 0x10
> 
> No chances these were hardware monitoring chips with such addresses.
> 
> > In reviewing the previous 'sensors-detect' output I noticed that it found
> > a "sensor" but that it is flagged 'no hardware monitoring capabilites':
> 
> It found a Super-I/O chip rather than a sensor. We have sensors-detect
> list these even when they do not include sensors so that we don't have
> to continuously check whether unrecognized Super-I/O chips fall into
> that category when people report about them.
> 
> > There is no 'Hardware Monitor' section in the BIOS.
> 
> This is well in line with the lack of lm_sensors-supported chip.
> 
> I don't think there is anything more to be tried on this system, ACPI
> seems to be your only monitoring information source. It's not as
> powerful as what lm_sensors usually offers, but still better than
> nothing at all.
> 
> --
> Jean Delvare
> 


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