gkrellm, lm_sensors, nothing working right.

[godzakka]

I got glrellm installed, barely. I got lm_sensors installed, I think. I try doing a make on the gklmsensors plugin, and I get a "sensors.so" no such file error. I went looking on the net, in the forums, nothing can I find that will help. I am very new and just trying to get a temperature monitor set up. This is about my 100th try, so I am obviously needing some help already.

Please.

Thanks

[scanez]

What distro? What motherboard/chipset? What packages did you install for lm_sensors? Required modules modprobed? Does sensors (the program that is) work?

[godzakka]

Mandrake 9. Athlon 1600+ and Shuttle AK35GTR with VIA KT266A chipset.

What packages? First, I did the lm_sensors, then it said dep's were libsensor.so so I found that. Fine. Then nothing worked. I installed everything, but nothing is compiling right, working right...I just don't know for sure, I am too new to figure out all this code, and its a huge amount of code, so I can't just post it here. At one point after I typed in "sensors" it told me to type in something with modprobe, and I did. Then I redid "sensors" and then it said "No sensors found!".

I assume that means I have the program working?

Not sure.

I need a foolproof way to monitor my temps and voltages. One even a newb can't screw up.

[mdwatts]

lm_sensors is still on my long, long todo list.

I believe you need l2c kernel support either built in statically or loaded as modules.

The lm_sensors documentation should tell you the modules that are required.

[bwkaz]

Try a sensors_detect as root (actually, might be sensors-detect, I'm not sure anymore). It will ask a bunch of questions about the hardware and what you want it to probe for, and then it'll tell you all the modules you need to load. Do that, and try running sensors again.

But gkrellm should work just fine as long as your i2c-proc module (which loads i2c-core automatically) and i2c-whateverdevice module are loaded. gkrellm uses the /proc filesystem to interface to lm_sensors, so if you want to poke around in the files in /proc/sys/dev/sensors (DON'T change anything, just look, please... ;) ), that might tell you something important. If you don't have a sensors directory under /proc/sys/dev, you either haven't loaded i2c-proc, or you haven't loaded the module for your motherboard (my i2c chip is a w83697hf, so I use the i2c-w83697hf module -- sensors_detect will tell you what this should be).

[godzakka]

I messes something up and had to reinstall Mandrake 9 tonight. What a pain that was. Luckily I am still new, so nothing much lost. Got it to where it was, but I tried LM-sensors first this time. Still same problems. I tried that sensors-detect, answered all of the questions, did what it said, but....

what do you mean load the modules? How do I do that?

Thanks

[scanez]

Okay, if everything is installed correctly, try this:

modprobe i2c-proc
modprobe via686a (if that doesn't work, try vt1211, i2c-via, or i2c-viapro instead of via686a)

Then try running the program "sensors" and see if they are detected. If not, you have have to modprobe i2c-isa also.

If nothing works, post some error messages ;)

[godzakka]

So theoretically, if I know it uses the viapro, the w83781d and a few others, load those by using "modprobe xxx"? Sounds logical, I don't know why I never thought of that. I will give it a try soon, I am on my Windows (I know, I know) machine right now. I like Linux, its just a pain to learn it when you are familiar with Win.

UPDATED: Scanez, you are the man! I got it to work. I started chanting "HARD WORK WILL PAY OFF!" too. Thanks so much, you had the one thing I was missing. Thanks to all others too, you all helped out so much. I am really loving this linux stuff. So much more rewarding when you figure something out.