Jonathan Daugherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JD> I'd like to install a wm app on my box, but I need the lm_sensors JD> modules to be installed. I got the source, built the debs, and JD> install them all, but now I can't find the lm_sensors modules JD> they're referring to. Can anyone help me get this set up?
What exactly did you do? The current approved way to build lm-sensors kernel modules is to acquire a kernel source tree (possibly via a Debian kernel-source package, possibly by downloading source from somewhere else) and install the kernel-package and lm-sensors-source packages. Run 'make-kpkg modules_image' from the top-level directory of the kernel source tree (either as root or with fakeroot). This will create a Debian package with the modules in the directory above the one where the source is unpacked; install that package. There are surely other ways to build the modules without kernel-package. It'd probably suffice, for example, to install lm-sensors-source and build a package out of the resulting source tree with KSRC and KVERS environment variables set to point to the top of the kernel source tree and to the kernel version number, respectively. Or manually invoke the top-level Makefile of either what lm-sensors-source installs or of the source package with appropriate options. These are (IMHO) more trouble and more work, but possible. If you download the lm-sensors source and unpack and build it using normal Debian package-building techniques, you won't get kernel modules. This is because building doesn't necessarily require that kernel source/headers are installed, and because there are just too many combinations currently to make trying to build even vaguely sensible. Also note that the version of lm-sensors-source in testing has a lot of issues; the version in unstable (currently will bubble into testing in four days) seems to work much better. (Like, it actually builds something, and doesn't try to dump the resulting package in / if you're using a current kernel-package.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
