>>>>> "mark" == Mark Studebaker <mds at paradyne.com> writes: mark> Here's the latest. mark> The issue is not resolved. We stopped getting help from IBM mark> several months ago. mark> The kernel patches (and kernels like Red Hat that have had sensors mark> included for quite a while now) only contain individual modules. mark> They don't 'sense' any particular model of board - they look for mark> a device they support, and either do nothing or exit if they mark> don't find it. mark> The tool that's been the problem for IBM users is sensors-detect, mark> our hardware detection script. It is a userspace tool and is not mark> part of the kernel patches. mark> Unless a kernel user (whether 2.5, redhat, whatever) starts mark> modprobing sensors modules he can't get hurt. mark> We haven't heard any complaints from IBM users in quite a while - mark> and as I said Red Hat has been shipping our package for over a year, IIRC. mark> Sorry you toasted your thinkpad. Believe me if we had the info mark> from IBM we needed we would try to fix it. Mandrake has shipped lm_sensors since before February 2001 (I joined at that point and sensors was already shipped). I have not had reports of thinkpad users either. Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
