Re: system hardware monitoring

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 06:21:52AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> The point, what userland utils can report cpu fan speed & temp. I am
> using the 2.4.26 kernel and afaikt, the i2c & lm-sensors, are
> additional modules that need to be compiled to 'reliably?' work. Is
> there any existing tools besides these that do this ?

No userland utility can do the entire job. It requires accessing hardware,
and that's the responsibility of the kernel at some point. I've had no
problem getting lm-sensors working on any 2.4 system; in Debian all it takes
is installing the lm-sensors-source and i2c-source packages, building, and
installing the packages they generate. They come with plenty of
instruction. Any distribution should have something similar to this; if
you're using the vendor's kernel it would probably be even easier.

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Michael Fowler
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