On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:08:27 -0800, Mark E. Hansen wrote: > On 01/14/09 12:39, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Alarms are the last piece that has been ported to the standard sysfs > > interface (which lm-sensors 3 builds on top of.) See > > http://www.lm-sensors.org/ticket/2261 > > for a list of drivers that have been fixed in recent kernels. So > > basically for proper alarm support with lm-sensors 3.x you need a > > recent enough kernel. > > To get the chip in my motherboard working (with either version or lm-sensors) > I had to get an updated kernel module (the chip is ITE IT8716F). The kernel > module is 'it87'. > > Is this what you mean, or is there other kernel support (other than the > it87 module, I mean) which is needed to get the alarms to work? I mean the it87 module, indeed. But each kernel version has a different version of that module, it gets improved over time. Alarm support suitable for lm-sensors 3 was added in kernel 2.6.25. -- Jean Delvare
