On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:49:34AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > You know whats interesting? All this time, i've been using the > > official Fedora rpm packages!! i've got the original 2.8.1 which > > came with Fedora Core 1, all up to and including 2.8.6 which can be > > downloaded from Fedora's development directory. Red Hat updates only the user land unfortunately ... :( (but that's OK for 2.6) > > I've also uninstalled lm_sensors as a package, searched for all > > sensor files and libraries just to make sure no traces of old files > > are left behind, and re-installed the latest 2.8.6 package all over > > again. > > > > Even though i've done all that, i still end up with old it87.o :( > > > > Does it mean the packages generated by Fedora/Redhat are broken? Yes. :( > First, you have to pay attention that there are two parts in the > lm_sensors project: > 1* Kernel modules > 2* User-space tools. > > All distributions that include lm_sensors have *two* distinct packages > for these. In some (most) cases the kernel modules are part of the > kernel package, while the user-space tools are in a lm-sensors package. > So I suspect that you have been upgrading only the lm-sensors package, > and *not* the kernel package, while you should have done that as well. Unfortunately Red Hat has a policy of either patching it into the kernel or not at all, e.g. there are no externally built kernel module rpms from Red Hat for any of its products/projects. 3rd party repos OTOH have been doing this for ages now. Since Red Hat has not updated the i2c subsystem in FC1's kernel rpms (2.6.1/20010830), you need to get i2c 2.8.x enabled kernels first anyway. Red Hat's lm_sensors' version in the kernel is a bit younger, but still ancient (2.6.5/20020915). The userland bits coming with FC1 are rather fresh, 2.8.1, but that doesn't really help if the kernel has no support. > So you should try upgrading kernels and see how it goes. > > If you can't get it to work, you may want to give a try to Axel Thimm's > packages: > Userspace tools at http://atrpms.net/name/lm_sensors/ > Kernels at http://atrpms.net/name/kernel/ This is the only packaged way of getting lm_sensors 2.8.x running on (released) Red Hat distributions. And if you wait for half an hour you can get a "2179" derived kernel and kernel modules, which include the latest security fixes from Red Hat. Xairetismata/Greetings. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20040416/cab5d869/attachment.bin
