Can't get lm_sensors to work!!! help HELP

Disintegration · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 13

ok, first off , my kernel version is 2.4.26-rc3 gentoo-sources
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 04
my smbus blah blah, im almost sure this board has readable sensors, its an asus P4T533

well anyway, i run sensors detect

i get this at the end of it.
#----cut here----
# I2C adapter drivers
modprobe i2c-i801
# I2C chip drivers
modprobe w83781d
modprobe smbus-arp
# sleep 2 # optional
/usr/local/bin/sensors -s # recommended
#----end cut here----

Do you want to overwrite /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors? Enter s to specify other file name?
(yes/NO/s):

i do all that, i type in
'sensors -s' I get this

bash-2.05b# sensors -s
Can't access /proc file
/proc/sys/dev/sensors/chips or /proc/bus/i2c unreadable;
Make sure you have done 'modprobe i2c-proc'!
bash-2.05b#

Ok well, i modprobe i2c-proc

do sensors -s again and i get thi
bash-2.05b# sensors -s
No sensors found!
bash-2.05b#

Sorry, i am rather horrible at explaining things. bare with me...

can someone give me a hand here

SpinDizzy · Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:04 am Post subject:

When it asked to overwrite /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors did you say yes?

After the above did you restart lm_sensors?

rogerdugans · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 32 Location: massachusetts

I had another problem when trying to get my sensors going:

I needed to run the /prog/makedev.sh script (and received the error telling me so, which you have not...so this may not apply.) And I am not sure if that script name is exactly right- its been a week or two.

To get to that script, I had to go into the portage directory on my machine and extract the software manually to access it.

Once done, my sensors have worked flawlessly.

Again, I am not sure if it is the same problem, but that is one of the issues I had...

Disintegration · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 13

well i did what you said, and executed lm_sensors restart
well it loaded everything up, and then my machine started beeping like mad :/

SpinDizzy · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:41 am Post subject:

Beeping is a good sign ... sort of.

Don't run the senors -s initially.

The -s tells it to set various things which may not yet be properly configured in your /etc/sensors.conf

For example, the default for your chip may have a motherboard fan with an alarm limit of 2000 rpm. If you don't have that fan connected and run sensors -s, an alarm will result...

Once you have lm_sensors restarted just run sensors with no arguments and see if the output makes sense.

You may then have to look through /etc/sensors.conf for the configuration for your specific sensor chip(s) and correct the values in there.

Disintegration · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Posts: 13

hmm

the beeping starts when this modules gets modprobed. when i run 'lm_sensors restart'

w83781d

anyone have any ideas why??