l.s. my sony vaio laptop running fluxbuntu is getting way too hot and I am trying to get an idea of the temperature with lm-sensors. But I cannot make any sense of all the gibberish on this site or of the lengthy stories coming out of the installation script below. Although I am an IT professional, it seems one has to be a rocket scientist to simply measure the temperature of a device. Anaybody can make any sense of this? Gijs ================================================================================= gijs at gijs:/tmp$ sudo perl "sensors-detect?format=txt" # sensors-detect revision $Revision$ 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-ali15x3' for device 0000:00:06.0: Acer Labs 1533/1543 Use driver `i2c-ali1535' for device 0000:00:06.0: Acer Labs 1535 We will now try to load each adapter module in turn. Module `i2c-ali15x3' already loaded. Module `i2c-ali1535' already loaded. If you have undetectable or unsupported I2C/SMBus 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 ALI1535 adapter at 8040 (i2c-0) Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): Client found at address 0x50 Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1033'... No Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1034'... No Probing for `SPD EEPROM'... Yes (confidence 8, not a hardware monitoring chip) Probing for `EDID EEPROM'... No Client found at address 0x51 Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1033'... No Probing for `Analog Devices ADM1034'... No Probing for `SPD EEPROM'... YesSome 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 `IPMI BMC KCS' at 0xca0... No 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 `National Semiconductor'... No Trying family `SMSC'... No Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Fintek'... No Trying family `ITE'... No Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f Trying family `National Semiconductor'... No Trying family `SMSC'... No Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Fintek'... No Trying family `ITE'... No Some south bridges, CPUs or memory controllers may also contain embedded sensors. Do you want to scan for them? (YES/no): Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595... No VIA VT82C686 Integrated Sensors... No VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors... No AMD K8 thermal sensors... No AMD K10 thermal sensors... No Intel Core family thermal sensor... No Intel AMB FB-DIMM thermal sensor... No VIA C7 thermal and voltage sensors... No Sorry, no sensors were detected. Either your sensors are not supported, or they are connected to an I2C or SMBus adapter that is not supported. See doc/FAQ, doc/lm_sensors-FAQ.html or http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/FAQ (FAQ #4.24.3) for further information. If you find out what chips are on your board, check http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices for driver status. (confidence 8, not a hardware monitoring chip) Probing for `EDID EEPROM'... No