Hello Jean, For now, just a wild guess, but it seemed, that gentoo sources using the preemptible kernel patch (Was it preemptible or preemptive ?) tend to freeze temporary in a non reproduceable way. Since the patch mangles the scheduling and certainly the most inner parts of the kernel I could imagine it might influence lm sensors too. Just a thought to consider that kinda popped up my mind, since I saw a couple of gentoo boxes with 2.4.x series that all had problems with kernels including this patch. We all switched the feature off and rebuilt the kernel, but I guess most users use the premade gentoo scripts and there it seems to be turned on by default. Intristing question would be: Do others (non gentoo) folks use that patch, do they have problems with it, esp. with lm_sensors? My 2 cents. -Sven Monday, February 16, 2004, 8:39:40 PM, you wrote: JD> (Do you know how much I dislike mixed-case?) >> Thanx for your answer. Well, I had soem problems with gentoo kernels >> in the past, so I decided to use a vanilla kernel, with xfs patches >> and soem other small patches I needed (amongst them i2c). JD> Good move. The Gentoo kernels are know to be mostly not compliant with JD> lm_sensors anyway. BTW, if you can figure out why, please let us know. >> I will check back on the libs. I was already considering using the >> source and compiling it by hand. JD> I would recommend that you begin with uninstalling the Gentoo stuff JD> before installing your own. This is the best way to avoid conflicts. -- Best regards, DarKRaveR mailto:DarKRaveR at verfeiert.org
