Hi peoples,

I had lm_sensors work in my last install but my little brother came in amd typed rm -rf / and I was login as root. Now I can get lm_sensors to work. I'm runing 2.6.1 and get this error:

root@linux:~# sensors-detect
No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them.
root@linux:~#

what do I do to fix this I don't have an of a programs that are listed on my system.
Thank You
-Joey

Try reading the "QUICKSTART" file in the package. Like the error said you ned to ru nthe following from the source directory:
prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh

My bad. Thank you

Cut and paste from my post in Linux - General
Hi all,

To make a long story short, I had to reinstall slack on my slack box before I had to reinstall I had lm_sensors with prefectly but now I get this:
eeprom-i2c-0-51
Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 0400
Algorithm: Unavailable from sysfs
Memory type: SDR SDRAM DIMM
Memory size (MB): 256

eeprom-i2c-0-50
Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 0400
Algorithm: Unavailable from sysfs
Memory type: SDR SDRAM DIMM
Memory size (MB): 512

Why can't it get the Algorithm. And why is it not showing my my temps, and fan speeds like it was before. I do have a sysfs:

/dev/hdc2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hdc1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdd1 /backup ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0

I am runing kernel 2.6.1 with all of the i2c things as modules. If you need to see any more config files just say so.

Thank You
-Joey

You are going to want to give this thread a read. Apparently the 2.6.x series of kernels give lm_sensors a real problem. The lm_sensors group did just release the 2.8.3 version which apparently is absolutely required for the 2.6.1 kernel. Of course just to make things more difficult, 2.8.3 doesn't work with a 2.6.0 kernel. For that you need 2.8.2. Ugh. Oh, and be sure to install lm_sensors with make user and make user_install if you are running a 2.6.1 kernel.

This is one of the thornier problems I've come across lately. I'm running a 2.6.1 kernel, I've got lm_sensors 2.8.3, I've got sysfs set up and I've installed all the modules that sensors-detect suggests......And I still haven't gotten it to work.

If you get it to work, please post your solution.

I have 2.8.3, I had 2.8.2 working w/ 2.6.0 in the past, I am using make user, make user_install. Its not detecting my sensors now but it did before.

You have Satan for a little brother.

Can you post the output of 'lsmod'?

It looks to me that a module for your particular monitoring chip may not be loaded. You could also try 'sensors-detect' which should be in the prog/detect/ directory of of the lm_sensors source code.

On my system I have the following i2c related modules loaded:

it87
eeprom
i2c_sensor
i2c_isa
i2c_nforce2
i2c_core

The it87 and i2c_nforce2 modules are for my particular motherboard. The one's you need may vary.

Hope this helps.

via686a 18692 0
eeprom 6400 0
i2c_sensor 2880 2 via686a,eeprom
i2c_isa 2176 0
i2c_viapro 6412 0

Yes, I know but I got him back. If you ping a window box with the -f option as root over 100mb conection it will lock-up you can't even move the mouse

It worked like 7 dayes ago

Is there anything that I need to put into my kernel

I figuared it out. I was missing lib sensors
root@deooge:~# sensors
via686a-isa-0c00
Adapter: ISA adapter
Algorithm: ISA algorithm
CPU core: +1.40 V (min = +1.99 V, max = +2.49 V) ALARM
+2.5V: +2.52 V (min = +2.24 V, max = +2.74 V)
I/O: +3.27 V (min = +2.95 V, max = +3.62 V)
+5V: +4.94 V (min = +4.47 V, max = +5.49 V)
+12V: +12.04 V (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.18 V)
CPU Fan: 6428 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
CPU Temp: +45.9°C (high = +45°C, hyst = +40°C) ALARM
SYS Temp: +31.1°C (high = +60°C, hyst = +55°C)


Thank You all for helping

This might be a dumb question, but what does the rm -rf / do? Im guessing ir removes and reformats the root partition, no?

Not reformat - just recurisively delete all the files mounted under /.

I've been trying to get my sensors to work, I stopped trying a few weeks ago. Couldn't seem to get past this point...

What do I need to modprobe, if anything? Or is there some other problem?