Hi, Till, hi Rudolf, >Hi, > >Am Montag, 27. November 2006 10:14 schrieb Ulrich Ke?ler: > > >>I tried to remove the old "SUSE version" with YAST but I get a lot of >>missing dependencies warnings. Is it safe to delete all those things >>(kdebase3-*, amarok-*,kdeaddons-*, susehelp* etc.)? >> >> >Uhm, no, don't do that. I think you wouldn't even be able to >delete them because there are tons of additional packets depending >on these and you'd have to remove them as well. You'd end up deleting nearly >everything. > > > I got the lm-sensors uninstalled wiht YAST by ignoring all the dependencies warnings. >You might perhaps try to just overwrite the existing files by setting the >install prefix to /usr. While this is ugly as well and may cause some problems >it will likely allow your yast to be able to continue to work. The only real >solution is of course to build a new package for your suse. > > > > I'm sorry, I don't understand this part. In the meantime I have tried to learn a bit about patching kernels etc. This is what I understand I have to do to get the lm-sensors running with the W83627DHG chip and the Core2Duo temperature sensors: 1. I have to get a driver for the W83627DHG chip. This will be a loadable module w83627ehf.ko in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.16.21-0.25-smp/kernel/drivers/hwmon. SUSE 10.1 has such a driver but it seems too old (a. the documentation of the corresponding (?) w83627ehf.c file in /usr/src/linux/drivers/hwmon says nothing about w83627dhg support; b. I cannot do 'modprobe w83627ehf': no such device). The newer version of the w83627.c file is this: http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20060906/b139bc4d/attachment-0001.obj So I should rename the old w83627ehf.c file and copy the new one to /usr/src/linux/drivers/hwmon. Now I have to build the new kernel module. This is the step I don't understand yet. After that I can do 'modprobe w83627ehf' and the W83627DHG works with lm-sensors. 2. Installing the coretemp driver is a bit more tricky because I have to patch msr.c first. I think this works in principle as above: rename /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/msr.c, copy the new msr.c to this directory and recompile. I think in this case I have to recompile the whole kernel because msr is no loadable module. After that I can build the coretemp driver as a loadable module as above: copy coretemp.c to /usr/src/linux/drivers/hwmon, building the module, 'modprobe coretemp'. In the end, I should add two lines to my file /etc/init.d/boot.local: modprobe w83627ehf modprobe coretemp lm-sensors should work then. Eventually I have to correct the file sensors.conf. Is this correct so far? How does the patching thing work? I think I should first save my old kernel in case something goes wrong. Is there a preferred way to do this? Thank you for your help. Best regards Uli
