On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 13:15 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > OK. Can you make sure that libsensors was compiled with sysfs support? > "ldd /usr/lib/libsensors.so" should have one line for libsysfs. It's there... james at cressida:~$ ldd /usr/lib/libsensors.so.3 linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7df3000) libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0xb7dcc000) libsysfs.so.1 => /lib/libsysfs.so.1 (0xb7dc1000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000) > You have a Super-I/O chip (a.k.a. LPC chip) we don't know about. Given > the output above, this could be a chip made by ITE, National > Semiconductor or SMSC. Can you find some documentation about your board > and/or open the case and locate that chip? Typically they are > rectangular, with 128 pins, and measure about 20 mm by 12 mm. Sometimes > these chips have hardware monitoring functionalities. I found the following SMSC chip: LPC47M584-NC B0443-AL1314 8H1190280 Here's a link to a photograph. http://www.freecharity.org.uk/~james/DSC00300.JPG > Does the BIOS of your system display any hardware monitoring > information? Is this system somehow advertise as having hardware > monitoring capabilities? Nothing there, I guess that doesn't bode well.. Many thnaks for your help, James