On 01/14/09 13:58, Jean Delvare wrote: > 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. > Well, one of the folks on the CentOS forum said that support for my particular chip was in the 'upstream' kernel, and he created a kernel module from that source (I don't know which kernel version it was, specifically). I'll go back and ask him, then post a new question to this list about whether Alarm support should be in there. Thanks, and Sorry Mark for the thread-stepping.
