lm-sensors folks, we installed the lm-sensors package and now have the kernel modules loaded and can type "sensors" to get a listing of sensor values. However, the sensor values that we see are very strange. They are all positive values, but they range from 0 to 2500 C. We have 2 Xeon quad-core on Intel Server Board S5000PSL. The sensors output is copied below: bmc-isa-0020 Adapter: ISA adapter in1: +0.00 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) in2: +1.14 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) in3: +1.14 V (min = +0.81 V, max = +0.98 V) in4: +0.17 V (min = +10.42 V, max = +13.58 V) in5: +11.59 V (min = +4.45 V, max = +5.56 V) in6: +4.99 V (min = +1.36 V, max = +1.64 V) in7: +1.52 V (min = +3.03 V, max = +3.61 V) in8: +3.29 V (min = +2.94 V, max = +3.68 V) in9: +3.30 V (min = +1.64 V, max = +1.99 V) in10: +2.00 V (min = +1.33 V, max = +1.68 V) fan1: 12740 RPM (min = 630 RPM) fan2: 594 RPM (min = 330 RPM) fan3: 1980 RPM (min = 330 RPM) temp1: +71.0?C (high = +50?C, hyst = +0?C) temp2: +0.0?C (high = +50?C, hyst = +0?C) temp3: +0.0?C (high = +0?C, hyst = +2?C) temp4: +1780.0?C (high = +0?C, hyst = +2?C) temp5: +1860.0?C (high = +0?C, hyst = +2?C) temp6: +1940.0?C (high = +0?C, hyst = +2?C) temp7: +720.0?C (high = +8?C, hyst = +0?C) temp8: +2520.0?C (high = +66?C, hyst = +2?C) The dmesg log is as follows: ipmisensors: starting update ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0xd1 0x0 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0xd0 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 208 (type 2) reading 182 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0xc1 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 193 (type 1) reading 181 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0xc0 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 192 (type 1) reading 0 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x9d 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 157 (type 1) reading 0 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x9c 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 156 (type 1) reading 178 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x9b 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 155 (type 1) reading 187 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x99 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 153 (type 1) reading 194 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x56 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 86 (type 4) reading 183 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x51 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 81 (type 4) reading 18 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x50 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 80 (type 4) reading 59 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x48 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 72 (type 1) reading 71 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x30 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 48 (type 1) reading 250 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x1b 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 27 (type 2) reading 35 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x1a 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 26 (type 2) reading 187 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x18 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 24 (type 2) reading 192 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x17 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 23 (type 2) reading 195 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x16 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 22 (type 2) reading 191 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x15 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 21 (type 2) reading 192 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x14 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 20 (type 2) reading 194 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x13 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 19 (type 2) reading 174 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x12 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 18 (type 2) reading 113 ipmisensors: Send 0x2d 0x10 0x0 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 16 (type 2) reading 191 ipmisensors: received message ipmisensors: sensor 16 (type 2) reading 174 ipmisensors: update complete ipmisensors: starting update --------------------- And the sensors detect output: # sensors-detect revision 4171 (2006-09-24 03:37:01 -0700) This program will help you determine which kernel modules you need to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. It is generally safe and recommended to accept the default answers to all questions, unless you know what you're doing. We can start with probing for (PCI) I2C or SMBus adapters. Do you want to probe now? (YES/no): Probing for PCI bus adapters... Use driver `i2c-i801' for device 0000:00:1f.3: Intel Enterprise Southbridge - ESB2 We will now try to load each adapter module in turn. Load `i2c-i801' (say NO if built into your kernel)? (YES/no): Module loaded successfully. If you have undetectable or unsupported adapters, you can have them scanned by manually loading the modules before running this script. We are now going to do the I2C/SMBus adapter probings. Some chips may be double detected; we choose the one with the highest confidence value in that case. If you found that the adapter hung after probing a certain address, you can specify that address to remain unprobed. Next adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 3000 Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): Some chips are also accessible through the ISA I/O ports. We have to write to arbitrary I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe though. Yes, you do have ISA I/O ports even if you do not have any ISA slots! Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (YES/no): Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' at 0x290... No Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J' at 0x290... No Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79' at 0x290... No Probing for `Winbond W83781D' at 0x290... No Probing for `Winbond W83782D' at 0x290... No Probing for `Winbond W83627HF' at 0x290... No Probing for `Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595'... No Probing for `VIA VT82C686 Integrated Sensors'... No Probing for `VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors'... No Probing for `AMD K8 thermal sensors'... No Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' at 0xca0... Success! (confidence 4, driver `bmcsensors') Probing for `IPMI BMC SMIC' at 0xca8... No Some Super I/O chips may also contain sensors. We have to write to standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe. Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f Trying family `ITE'... Yes Found unknown chip with ID 0xf211 Trying family `National Semiconductor'... Yes Found `Nat. Semi. PC87427 Super IO Fan Sensors' (but not activated) Found `Nat. Semi. PC87427 Super IO Health Sensors' (but not activated) Trying family `SMSC'... Yes Found unknown chip with ID 0xf211 Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Fintek'... Yes Found unknown chip with ID 0xf211 Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f Trying family `ITE'... No Trying family `National Semiconductor'... No Trying family `SMSC'... No Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Fintek'... No Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. Just press ENTER to continue: Driver `bmcsensors' (should be inserted): Detects correctly: * ISA bus address 0x0ca0 (Busdriver `i2c-isa') Chip `IPMI BMC KCS' (confidence: 4) I will now generate the commands needed to load the required modules. Just press ENTER to continue: To make the sensors modules behave correctly, add these lines to /etc/modprobe.conf: #----cut here---- # I2C module options alias char-major-89 i2c-dev #----cut here---- To load everything that is needed, add this to some /etc/rc* file: #----cut here---- # I2C adapter drivers # You must also install and load the IPMI modules modprobe i2c-ipmi # Chip drivers # Warning: the required module bmcsensors is not currently installed # on your system. For status of 2.6 kernel ports check # http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices. If driver is built # into the kernel, or unavailable, comment out the following line. modprobe bmcsensors # sleep 2 # optional /usr/bin/sensors -s # recommended #----cut here---- If you have some drivers built into your kernel, the list above will contain too many modules. Skip the appropriate ones! You really should try these commands right now to make sure everything is working properly. Monitoring programs won't work until the needed modules are loaded. ================ Do we need to scale these values? And if so, how? Or any other ideas would be great. Thanks for your help, Matt & Max.