Pam, I checked in Khali's patch below if you would rather get it from CVS. mds Khali wrote: > > (BTW: I don't seem to have received the last two messages I sent to the list; > is there something wrong?) > > > dmi: read: Success > This sucks. Dmidecode failed and I found out why (pretty lame bug indeed). > Patch attached. > > Pam, do you have the time and knowledge to patch the dmidecode source that > comes with lm_sensors-2.6.5 (in prog/detect IIRC), reinstall it and rerun > sensors-detect? Could you also send us the output of dmesg and the output of > dmidecode itself, would be perfect :) > > I also attached a simple perl script. Please run it as root (I swear it is > safe) and send me the output. It is an alternative method for IBM detection I > am working on. If it works, we can get rid of dmidecode really soon. > > > Obviously I hit ctrl-c at that point. > There were no risk of breaking anything... Well, in theory ;) > > Thanks A LOT for testing, be sure we appreciate :) > Khali. > > > Name: dmidecode-1.4-fixread.diff > dmidecode-1.4-fixread.diff Type: Plain Text (text/plain) > Encoding: 8bit > > Name: ibm.pl > ibm.pl Type: Perl Program (application/x-perl) > Encoding: base64
