lm_sensors and gkrellm HOWTO Support thread

totoffe · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject:

I have this problem :

bash-2.05b$ sensors-detect
No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them.

and I don't have any file called mkdev.sh.
Do you did I miss something???

totoffe · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 8:30 pm Post subject:

Ok I've worked it out :

untar the source, then go in the directory freshly untared and you will find prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh

ciao

Joe23 · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2004 Posts: 21

I dunno.. I've read most of what's been written here, and I still can't understand what I'm doing wrong.
my stats:
Motherboard: GA-8KNXP (intel). this is the board's web page: http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-8KNXP.htm

kernel version is 2.6.4.

this is what I get:

it87-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
VCore 1: +1.52 V (min = +1.42 V, max = +1.56 V) ALARM
VCore 2: +2.60 V (min = +2.40 V, max = +2.60 V) ALARM
+3.3V: +6.72 V (min = +3.12 V, max = +3.44 V) ALARM
+5V: +4.22 V (min = +4.72 V, max = +5.24 V) ALARM
+12V: +12.32 V (min = +11.36 V, max = +12.60 V)
-12V: -16.09 V (min = -12.63 V, max = -11.41 V) ALARM
-5V: -8.05 V (min = -5.28 V, max = -4.81 V) ALARM
Stdby: +4.67 V (min = +4.72 V, max = +5.24 V) ALARM
VBat: +4.08 V
fan1: 3139 RPM (min = 0 RPM, div = 2)
fan2: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) ALARM
fan3: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) ALARM
M/B Temp: +25°C (low = +15°C, high = +40°C) sensor = thermistor
CPU Temp: +89°C (low = +15°C, high = +45°C) sensor = invalid
Temp3: +74°C (low = +15°C, high = +45°C) sensor = thermistor

somehow I don't think my CPU temp is 89°C ..

as you can see, it's being recognized as a "it87-isa-0290" chip, but I don't know if that's true, the motherboard manual says nothing about it.

what can I do? I want to be able to see the actual and real values.

thanks in advance,
Joe

EDIT: the motherboard's manual states that the I/O controller is IT8712F

srs5694 · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:28 pm Post subject:

There are scaling factors that must be applied to various sensor readings, and these can vary from one board to another, and even from each sensor to another. These are entered in the /etc/sensors.conf file. Do a search in that file for "scaling"; there's a comment that describes what to do. My hunch is you need to halve your CPU temperature, but you may want to see what Windows and/or your BIOS is saying about the readings, just to be sure.

My own board (an MSI K8T Neo-FSR) doesn't require scaling factors in /etc/sensors.conf, but when I ran GKrellM, I found it was reporting temperatures in the 400-degree range. Scaling factors are entered for it in a little dial entry called "Factor;" entering "0.100" works well for me.

Souperman · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:58 pm Post subject:

Got my sensors working, except one of my system fans is not detected. Motherboard is a Jetway N2PAP-LITE (nFORCE2). Both fans are detected in the PC health indicators in POST and in the winbond hwdoctor program (Windows) that shipped with the board. Any ideas?
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fvant · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 6:44 am Post subject:

emerge i2c lm-sensors and making th kernel modukes worked without errors but when i run sensors-detect it complains with this message:

No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them.

modprobe i2c-proc also works...what's missing here ?

curious_bob · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 7:54 pm Post subject:

I am getting a kernel source compatiblilty error. Is this not compatible with linux-gaming-sources?

pens · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 11:33 pm Post subject:

curious_bob · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:45 pm Post subject:

Flurp · n00b Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 20 Location: Crewe, UK

I had the same problem as totoffe and several others:

Gentree · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 9:30 pm Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 9:36 pm Post subject:

PS I have this as module but kernel autoloading pulls it in.

glimt · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Washington

IMHO, this is a bug, probably should be logged.

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Gentree · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:38 am Post subject:

I dont see this as a bug,

if i2c-dev is not loaded there are no devices and the msg is correct.

The suggested fault msg may not be the most helpful, maybe it should suggest checking i2c-dev.

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suikka · n00b Joined: 13 May 2004 Posts: 52

i tried to install lm_sensors with not so good results..

kallamej · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject:

You should put

appetitus · Apprentice Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 210

He should also visit

http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/kernel26.html

and follow the instructions there about kernel options. Then the FAQ and some thinking will allow you to finally get it working. If he has ISA sensors, be sure to add the kernel option (not mentioned on webpage and was hard to find -- so I edited .config).

The newest sensors, 2.8.6 and kernel 2.6.6-mm4 work here on a Supermicro with only about a dozen attempts

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mentok · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:05 am Post subject:

I'm using kernel 2.6.5-mm6 and I've been trying to emerge a version of lm-sensors >2.8.1 but for some reason I can't. I've just done emerge sync and I have done

Stormmind · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 5:42 pm Post subject:

I've tryed following the guide, but when running "sensors-detect" i got the "no devices" error. Following a tip from above, I commented out the "exit 1" line in sensors-detect, and the script run through and did loading and stuff, but all of a sudden it stopped with:

kallamej · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 5:59 pm Post subject:

Stormmind · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 6:03 pm Post subject:

I dunno what I did, but I reran sensors-detect and it's working better now =)
will report results in a minute.

mentok · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 7:29 pm Post subject:

Here is what I get when trying to emerge lm-sensors:

kallamej · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 7:41 pm Post subject: