> I need some help.I am trying to find the best version of > lm_sensors/i2c that works with 2.2.16 kernel of Linux.I tried lot of > versions from 2.4 to 2.7 some of them either give compilation errors > or depmod -a errors..some successfull. The last 2.2-compatible version is 2.7.0, as stated on our download page. Please note that you need to download and install i2c-2.7.0 before you can get lm_sensors-2.7.0 to compile and work. > Everytime i see different kind > of results in sensor_detect.some times i see lm78 gets detected on ISA > and some time i see it87 getting detected ..different versions bdetect > defferent sensors.I am not sure if i am missing some thing. Detection is a delicate process. I2C devices are not identified by a unique number. Instead, we have to guess what each device could be reading its contents and compare with a list of known chips. I'm not that surprised to read that different runs of sensors-detect return different results. > when lm78 gets detected if i lode the modules with mod probe some > times it shows the temparature but if do rmmod and modprobe again..it > prints no sensors found. Unless this is a bug in the version of lm_sensors you are using, it may because you did not reload all the required modules. For sensors to work, you need to load at least i2c-core, i2c-proc, a bus driver and a chip driver (lm78 in your case). If you forgot the bus driver, you get that "no sensors found" message. > when it87 gets detected if i load the modules it shows me negative > temparature allways for temp2(cpu like -58C). So you more likely have a lm78. > Can you please help me to get out of this trouble to find the best > version of lmsensors and also if yuo can help me in clues in detecting > the right sensor. Use 2.7.0. I'd also recommend that you get the latest sensors-detect version from CVS: http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/lm_sensors2/prog/detect/sensors-detect and use it instead of the one that comes with 2.7.0. This detection script doesn't strongly depend on a given version of lm_sensors (except that newer versions could suggest to load drivers older versions didn't have). Since we have been improving our detection routines, it might give better results. -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
