Hi Pierce, On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:37:17 +0100, Pierce Ward wrote: > I recently setup a Red Hat 4 based system and wish to get lm_sensors > support. Here is my current setup: > > lm_sensors-2.8.7-2 > kernel-smp-2.6.9-5.EL > IBM Xseries 336 > > Basically I checked the Devices section of the wiki to check if my > board is compatible. My board is listed as supported: Intel 82801EB -> > i2c-i801 (pastebin of lspci: http://rafb.net/p/0x7zyL96.html ). This is only the SMBus controller. It doesn't include sensors. > However when I run sensors-detect, I get an error about my vendor > being IBM and that their systems aren't supported (as of my lm_sensors > 2.8.7 anyway). > > Before I go modifying the sensors-detect script I was wondering if > this is safe to do on this system? The error message from > sensors-detect mentions the thinkpad laptop, however I would assume > that an xseries server would be better supported. > > Unfortunately I won't be able to update lm_sensors on this box, so I'm > fairly limited in what I can do. Better download the latest version of the script here: http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/prog/detect/sensors-detect?format=txt You can run it without installing it. It doesn't have the check for IBM systems, since it was updated to behave more safely. And a recent version has more chances to know about your hardware. But I wouldn't hold my breath... As far as I know these IBM xseries servers do not have hardware monitoring chips. -- Jean Delvare
