> root at Root:~# sensors
> Can't access procfs/sysfs file
> Unable to find i2c bus information;
> For 2.6 kernels, make sure you have mounted sysfs and done
> 'modprobe i2c_sensor'!
> For older kernels, make sure you have done 'modprobe i2c-proc'!
>
>
> My SW9.1 is not using a 2.6 kernel, so I don't know what it refers to.
Are you blind or what? I can hardly say more to you than I already did
in ticket #1777. The solution is written in WHOLE LETTERS: modprobe
i2c-proc. Is it that hard to type these words in your shell and hit the
"Return" key?
> I know from previously installed lm_sensors in other linux OS's
> (MD10.0) I don't have any special thermistors.
>
> Slackware seems to do things slightly different to madrake, and I may
> be missing something.
The difference is that Mandrake uses /etc/sysconfig while Slackware
doesn't. This means that sensors-detect isn't able to generate an
automatic startup script for you (yet). You'll have to manually copy the
modprobe lines sensors-detect gives to you to /etc/rc.d/rc.sensors, and
make sure this (new) file will be called when you boot (typically
through /etc/rc.d/rc.local). As an example, my (Slackware as well)
scripts look like that:
#
# /etc/rc.d/rc.local (excerpt)
#
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.sensors ]
then
. /etc/rc.d/rc.sensors
fi
#
# /etc/rc.d/rc.sensors
#
#!/bin/sh
modprobe i2c-viapro
modprobe w83781d
if [ -x /usr/local/bin/sensors ]
then
/usr/local/bin/sensors -s
fi
#
Simply adjust to meet your own hardware configuration, and don't forget
to chmod +x your /etc/rc.d/rc.sensors script once done.
We could teach sensors-detect how to create the /etc/rc.d/rc.sensors
script automatically, I guess it would help, although the user would
still have to ensure that the script is called at some point.
--
Jean "Khali" Delvare
http://khali.linux-fr.org/
