> I understand that the project is in need of hardware in purpose of > testing. I would just like to make everyone aware of that I happend to > own an IBM ThinkPad 760XL. I know that lm_sensors destroys the > Thinpad's EPROM if run (due to a broken hardware-standard > implementation, right?). However, if there is someone who wants to > test something on it I can do that for him/her (or just give the > person in question a SSH account) as long as I don't have to replace > my motherboard :) I finished the detection code in sensors-detect. It would be great if we were able to test it on your system. The idea is: get lm_sensors from CVS and install it; run sensors-detect as root. You don't risk anything. If the detection works as I think it should, sensors-detect will refuse to continue. If not, you just press CTRL+C. In both cases, you let us know what happened. Everyone: There still is a problem: we can't run dmidecode if we are not root. And the problem is the same if we do what dmidecode does directly in perl, since we still need read access to /dev/mem. So, my question is: can we break a thinkpad without being root? If yes, we are facing a serious problem, and I have no idea how to solve it. BTW, you are all invited to test the new sensors-detect and report any problem that occurs. My policy has been: 1* If we aren't root or can't run dmidecode or dmidecode doesn't work the way we expect: display the good old IBM warning; 2* If we detect a non-IBM system, no warning at all. 3* If we detect an IBM system, explain and exit. 4* If we detect a blank system vendor, same as 1*. If someone has any objection, please let me know. Good night everyone :) -- Jean "Khali" Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
