On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Rahul Nabar <rpnabar at gmail.com> wrote: > I've a AMD Opteron Processor on a machine (Quad-Core AMD Opteron > Processor 2354) and wanted to monitor its temperature. I was > reccomended to use lm_sensors but after I tried sensor-detect it keeps > failing (error message below) > > Any clues what I am doing wrong? > > **************************************************************************** > Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. > Just press ENTER to continue: > > Driver `to-be-written' (should be inserted): > Detects correctly: > * Chip `AMD K10 thermal sensors' (confidence: 9) > > Do you want to overwrite /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors? (YES/no): > Starting lm_sensors: not configured, run sensors-detect[WARNING] > [root at uranus Downloads]# /etc/init.d/lm_sensors start > Starting lm_sensors: not configured, run sensors-detect[WARNING] > *********************************************************************************** > I think the problem is that the driver for that CPU is not yet implemented (that's why it says "to be written"). I don't know if the k8temp driver could work