On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, leon moss wrote: > I was just wondering if the lm-sensors will still > break the latest IBM thinkpads I am thinking about > getting a T61. I remember all of the other issues that > have been reported from other thinkpad users at > earlier models but I just wanted to see if you may > have known about the new T61's. Don't run sensors-detect on thinkpads, all you will find *IF* you are very lucky, is the clock generator (*never* mess with it) and the SPD eeproms in the RAM modules (dmidecode will tell you all about your RAM in a thinkpad, anyway). All of a recent thinkpad's sensors are not reachable by the main CPU. Use the ibm-acpi/thinkpad-acpi and tp_smapi drivers to talk to them. And if you did not do it yet, go to http://thinkwiki.org to learn about your thinkpad and its drivers. There is not much on the T61 in there yet, so feel free to help improve it. Thinkpad-acpi will export the sensors through the hwmon layer in 2.6.23, btw. I'd imagine lm-sensors userspace will be able to talk to it, then. Just don't do sensors-detect on a thinkpad. It is useless, although AFAIK it won't touch the broken vital-product-data eeprom that bricked thinkpads anymore. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
