Ross Boylan wrote: > I'm trying to use lm-sensors, so far with no luck. The Readme.Debian > is a bit unclear to me. It says: > > To use lm-sensors, you need the lm-sensors module package and an i2c > module package installed. You will probably need to build the modules > packages from source, using the lm-sensors-source and i2c-source packages. > If you have a 2.4 kernel or a recent 2.2 kernel, you can instead use the > kernel's new built-in i2c support -- just enable it in the kernel config. > > > Questions: > > I have a 2.4 kernel with i2c enabled. > Should I be able to apt-get install lm-sensors and have it work? > How do I know if I need to build from source? > What am I doing wrong? :) >
I needed to install from source. If you go to the lm-sensors website you will see that the latest version requires the new i2c (not the kernel default i2c headers). I installed the i2c source first and followed the QUICKSTART instructions: cd to i2c dir and do make make install depmod -a This installs the new i2c header files . Then install the lm-sensors source and edit the Makefile so that I2C_HEADERS points to the newly installed i2c header files then run make make install depmod -a and the rest of QUICKSTART. Probably some weirdness with my kernel-2.4.7-ac9 but i had to use i2c-2.6.0 and lm_sensors-2.5.5 because i could not get lm_sensors-2.6.0 to compile. I use gkrellm to display the info on the desktop.
