> Sorry, must have hit send. Anyways. Well, that happens to *me* also sometimes ;) > > This would make sense. David, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe > > that you can actually write to the files (simply using "cat 1 2 > > > /proc/sys/dev/sensors/via686a-isa-6000/in1" for example). So, if > > "sensors -s" fails, this must be because of libsensors *thinking* it > > cannot write. > > Actually no. Not using cat. I get this error if do that: > > bash-2.05b# cat 1 2 > /proc/sys/dev/sensors/via686a-isa-6000/in1 > cat: 1: No such file or directory > cat: 2: No such file or directory > > I can though 'echo' to it: > bash-2.05b# echo 1 2 > /proc/sys/dev/sensors/via686a-isa-6000/in1 > Haven't done that before though so not sure why it changed it to: > 0.99 1.99 1.07 > from the defaults in there. Doesn't matter now though. Root can write > to the file using 'echo' (hitting me head on the table) I of course meant echo, not cat :) Glad you figured it out by yourself. > > 1* Are you using i2c & lm_sensors 2.7.0 or CVS? > > 2.7.0 both, not CVS. Could you possibly give a try to CVS? It could be interesting to see if the problem could have been already been solved as a side effect of another fix. > > 2* Are you using the mkpatch method or the traditional separated > > compilation tree method? > > Not sure, Probably closer to the 2nd one. I could try not using the > ebuild below if you think it might be the problem. I think you're right, 2nd method. I don't think it changes anything that you use ebuild (except that you may not be able to use it for CVS). > SRC_URI="http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/archive/${MY_P}.tar.gz > mirror://gentoo/${P}-sensors-detect-gentoo.diff.bz2" BTW, what's this patch? I'd like to know what Gentoo changed in our original sensors-detect script. Thanks. -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
