I installed LM_sensors to work with Gkrellm (it's just nice to see what's going on inside the box ) For some reason I keep running into the same trouble. The sensors work fine after running sensors-detect, but the file that's is produced isn't copied to a working location I guess since after reboot no sensors work and I have to rerun sensors-detect to get them up again. Any clues on how to fix this on debian?
My final trouble with lm_sensors and debain is that I'm not able to compile any plugins. It works fine on slack (compiling in general in debian works fine aswell) but in debian I keep getting errors (I could post the errors as soon as I get home if no one recongnizes the problem.
Same goes for the rivatv module (to monitor the GeForce2MX card I have) During compile I get two warnings (have to look em up, sorry) and an error stating that I have to 'make dep' which isn't needed any more in 2.6.x Just running make and install doesn't give me a loadable module so I guess I have to do something else.
Any clues?

Regards

For building the 2.6 kernel

Take and read the following:

http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/...loween-2.6.txt

You need to get the module-init-tools.

Use lspci -v to help select your hardware. This will be helpful for configuring the 2.6 kernel.

make mrproper
make menuconfig
make
make modules_install
make install

Then modify you lilo.conf or grub.txt

make install installs vmlinuz into the boot directory along with System.map
It creates a symbolic link to you old vmlinuz -> vmlinuz.old and System.old

All you need to do is add entry for the old vmlinuz. I use lilo.conf

This is mine....

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=Linux2.6
read-only

** This would be you redhat config. **
image=/boot/vmlinuz.old
vga=791
append="hdc=scsi hdd=scsi apm=power-off nomce"
label=Linux2.4
read-only

If you are using lilo, issue lilo -v or modify you menu.lst for grub.

Hope this helps. The more people use 2.6 the better.

For lm_sensors:
Select the correctly sensors, etc. I personally would download 2.6.1
ONLY:
make user
make user_install

I almost forgot you need to create a dir
mkdir /sysfs

add this to your fstab

none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0

mount -f /sysfs

Ehm, thanx for your reply but building the 2.6.x kernel isn't the problem. I got 2.6.1 running fine in Debian and slack, with a working /sys! The problem is lm_sensors module and rivatv module specific!

Did you the proper lines that it tells you to in the files needed? On my system I had to put in the /etc/modules these lines:
Which other than the comment was a cut'n'paste from the output I removed the /usr/bin/sensors line that it told me to put there in the output with the sensors-detect as it did nothing as far as I could see other than give me an error at startup. And I had to create a file /etc/modutils/local and put in it this:
Again another cut'n'paste then had to run update-modules to have the new information entered into the /etc/modules.conf for use on the next reboot and I declined the offer for it to create a /etc/init.d/rc.d/lmsensors IIRC the name of the file now, everything starts and works fine this on a 2.6.2-rc3 kernel although it has worked for me this way every since I got the 2.8.2 source from the lmsensors homepage with all the kernels from 2.6 I have compiled you would of course use the output it tells you for your chipset in the /etc/modules the /etc/modutils/local should stay the same. I know nothing about the rivatv so can't help there.

Very helpfull! This solves the module not loading prob completely! Thanx

Man how stupid. I just found why my previous tries didn't work. I left the 'modprobe' before the module in the etc/modules file. this isn't needed Thanx anyway it works now.
Leaves me with the trouble of compiling plugins. The (for example) volume pluging gives me a list of errors while compiling brilliantly in Slack. Can't figure out why this is happening. Anyone tried installing plugins in Deb (must be)

Regards

apt-get install gkrellm-volume should get you that. You may also want to look at the output of apt-cache search gkrellm for the rest them that are available.

Thanx! Works brilliant....