Hi Jonathan, > > On 8/10/05, jonathan <support-squid at bfinance.fr> wrote: > > > hi , > > > I have installed lm-sensors with i2c, ipmi and bmcsensors modules but > > > the sensors command give me wrong values : > > > <snip> > > Well I don't think they aren't 'wrong' but they do need scaling :-) > > (although the negative ones are strange), see the example sensors.conf > > (http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/lm_sensors2/etc/sensors.conf.eg) > > for how to do so, specifically the compute lines. You will need to > > have some idea of what they normally should be, and if your bios gives > > you the same info you can compare with that. Also try ipmitool and see > > what it reads, it will probably give you the same thing though. > > > > Yani > > thanks Yani > but I don't understand why you are telling me that I have to scale the > result, because in the example sensors.conf it's written : > > chip "bmc-*" > # > # You should not need compute lines here, the driver will > # do all the conversions. > > So I don't need to scale anything with thic bmc chip, no ? > Good point, according to the IPMI spec the BMC threshold sensors should return a computed/scaled value rather than the raw value, and hence a compute line in sensors.conf would seem unnecessary. However it seems that the theory doesn't match reality, and I often have seen people's temperature output from bmcsensors (2.6) need scaling, whether this is due to strange BMCs or a fault in bmcsensors. On the system I originally ported the driver on the values are fine, but with all the people who need to use compute lines I wonder if I'm the one with the bad implementation. I think my new system needs the temperatures scaled. MDS wrote that line though (and that code) so maybe he can enlighten us :-), any input Mark? Thanks, Yani
