oh..ya its a tar.gz....i jsut assumed it was a bz2 as most are :) my bad. i guess i will wait, thanks for the tip about dmidecode! -farrell f. On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 00:29, Jean Delvare wrote: > > after i downloaded the tar.bz2 of lm_sensors (...) > > Where that? We don't distribute tar.bz2 files. > > > so after i installed the rpm, i ran /usr/sbin/sensors-detect (as > > root,) and i get this error message: "...Could not find dmidecode, > > which should have been installed with lm_sensors. Runing dmidecode > > would help us determining your system vendor, which allows safer > > operations...." > > > > first, is this a big problem? if so, how would i go about fixing it? > > Red Hat has an another RPM with dmidecode (that's why they don't ship it > with the sensors package). I think it's in the kernel-utils package, but > I am not a Red Hat user. > > > > Probing for PCI bus adapters... > > Use driver `i2c-riva' for device 01:00.0: GeForce2 MX > > Probe succesfully concluded. > > > > > > We will now try to load each adapter module in turn. > > Load `i2c-riva' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): > > > > i dont know if that kernel module is build into my kernel. i use the > > kernel rpms from redhat becuase every time i try to compile a kernel > > by hand, using a kernel for kernel.org, i end up messing things up a > > lot. by the way "uname -r" reports 2.4.20-18.9 if this is of any help. > > and the rpm is optomized for athlon cpus. > > > > anyway i chose yes to try to load the i2c-riva module, and i got this: > > > > modprobe: Can't locate module i2c-riva > > Loading failed (No such file or directory)... skipping. > > ** Note: i2c-riva module is available at > > ** http://drama.obuda.kando.hu/~fero/cgi-bin/rivatv.shtml > > This module is not part of the kernel nor of our distribution, so you > don't have it unless you install it by yourself. I don't think you will > find any RPM package for that, so since you don't seem to be willing to > compile code by yourself, forget about it. > > now this isnt too big of a deal to me, becuase it seems to me those > > sensors are for my geforce2 card, and im replacing it in about a week > > or two with a new geforce4 :) but either way...i suppose i should take > > the opportunity to learn, and fix this problem. > > It would work for your Geforce4 too, methinks, but that's not the point. > > > so then it says: > > (bla bla bla) > > It says you don't have any supported device. You did not tell us but I > guess you are using lm_sensors 2.7.0. You should wait for Red Hat to > package our new 2.8.0 release (could take some weeks) which has support > for many more devices. When it's ready, update your old package using > the new one and run sensors-detect again.
