[ATrpms-devel] lm_sensors 2.9.0

[Fedor Pikus]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 05:21:39 -0500, Paulo Cavalcanti
<paulo_roma at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I think there is something fishy with lm_sensors 2.9.0
> I try to upgrade from 2.8 loading the same modules as before and it did not
> work.
> I use lm85 (intel d865perl). Fedora core 1.
I went through that last week :)
First of all, you need i2c package and i2c kernel modules (whatever
your lm_sensors modules RPM is, get the matching one with i2c, also
from AT RPMs).
There are no dependencies, unfortunately, i.e. you have to pick up i2c
modules for install by hand.

> Then I tryed to use /usr/sbin/sensors-detect
> again and it froze during the detection.

As Axel pointed out to me, this happens because i2c_core module is
2.8.4 while i2c-i801 is 2.9.0. New i2c modules will fix that.

> 
> Then I moved back to 2.8.8. This version works fine
> but makes a reference to
> /sbin/MAKEDEV in line 71 of /etc/rc5.d/S26lm_sensors.
> 
> There is no such file. Should I create a symbolic link to
> /dev/MAKEDEV (ln -s /dev/MAKEDEV /sbin/MAKEDEV) ?

It'll make the message go away, I have this link from some time ago.
It probably won't make any difference as far as working of sensors,
you should have the devices already.

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel: i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.8.4
> (20040207)
> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel: i2c-i801 version 2.9.0 (20041228)

That's the version mismatch above, get i2c modules, they do work.

> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel: i2c-isa.o version 2.9.0 (20041228)
> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel: i2c-proc.o version 2.8.4 (20040207)
> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel: lm85: Version 2.9.0 (20041228)
> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel: lm85: See
> http://www.penguincomputing.com/lm_sensors for more info.
> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel: eeprom.o version 2.9.0 (20041228)
> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
> dereference at virtual address 0000002c
> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel:  printing eip:
> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel: f8aa6984
> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel: *pde = 3765b001
> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel: *pte = 377ff067
> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel: Oops: 0000
> Jan  4 14:34:37 naja kernel: eeprom lm85 i2c-proc i2c-isa i2c-i801 i2c-core
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