i2c and other modules in 2.6.14
Pardon the long post but I need some help and I think it may be related to the newer kernel, SID and perhaps udev which I haven't worked with before. I just hd installed kanotix 2005-4 (essentially SID) on a spare partition of my main box. First problem I ran into is when I tried to get lmsensors going. Normal practice for me since 2.6 kernels is to just apt-get install lmsensors then run sensors-detect to see what modules I need to insert for temp monitoring. i2c support has been built into 2.6 kernels.
Upon trying sensors-detect got following error: No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them So, I tried a modprobe i2c_dev then reran sensors-detect and it worked. I need asb100 for temp monitoring on my asus (nforce) board. Modprobe asb100 and it works (for that session). Here comes where I am lost, i2c_dev used to start for init5 at least (it uses alias char major 89) and I would insert the other modules needed in the appropriate etc/modules-whatever-kernel file and run update-modules. My new install, has very little going on in the modules file, the modules file on my old main installion (2.6.11)is: ntfs ac battery button container fan processor thermal video pcmcia_core rsrc_nonstatic yenta_socket pcmcia uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd serial_core 8250 gameport emu10k1_gp i2c_nforce2 (I think this called on i2c_dev to load) agpgart nvidia_agp forcedeth asb100 pcspkr evdev af_packet aes_i586 cryptoloop autofs4 snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm-oss But this new install of 2.6.14 has just a "modules" file no kernel identifying in the name and contains: capability fuse pcspkr I get the feeling something is done differently with this kernel and udev maybe? I hate to mess with hw modules as I think somewhere they can cause harm to hw! Can you clue in somebody that is getting left behind in the debian sid developments? I realize my knowledge is probably pretty basic and lame but thank you for assistance. |
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