| 1 | INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS |
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| 2 | ========================= |
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| 3 | |
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| 4 | The lm-sensors package, version 3, provides user-space support for the |
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| 5 | hardware monitoring drivers in Linux 2.6.5 and later. For older kernel |
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| 6 | versions, you have to use lm-sensors version 2. |
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| 8 | |
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| 9 | Dependencies |
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| 10 | ============ |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | Build-time dependencies: |
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| 13 | * GNU make |
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| 14 | * gcc |
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| 15 | * bison |
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| 16 | * flex |
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| 17 | * libsysfs header files (from sysfsutils-devel) |
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| 18 | * rrd header files (optional, for sensord) |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | Run-time dependencies: |
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| 21 | * libsysfs (from sysfsutils) |
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| 22 | * perl (for sensors-detect) |
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| 23 | * rrd (optional, for sensord) |
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| 26 | Compilation |
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| 27 | =========== |
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| 28 | |
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| 29 | At the top of the Makefile are a couple of configuration variables that |
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| 30 | you may want to change. There's a description of what each variable does |
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| 31 | in the Makefile itself. |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | Compilation is done by `make all'. You will get a lot of warnings about |
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| 34 | files which are not found, all ending in `.*d'. You can safely ignore |
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| 35 | this; they contain dependency information, which is regenerated on the |
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| 36 | spot. |
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| 37 | |
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| 38 | `make install' installs the package (to /usr/local by default). |
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| 41 | Using the sensors package |
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| 42 | ========================= |
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| 43 | |
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| 44 | There is a scanning program installed called sensors-detect. It |
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| 45 | will scan all available I2C and SMBus adapters for all known sensor |
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| 46 | devices, and will also look for ISA, PCI and Super-I/O chips with |
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| 47 | sensors, and give you a list of what kernel drivers you need to load |
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| 48 | (using modprobe). |
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| 50 | You can use the installed sensors program to get a report of all detected |
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| 51 | sensor devices. There is also a manual page for this program. Calling |
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| 52 | `sensors -s' will set the limits and other configuration settings |
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| 53 | specified in /etc/sensors.conf. Again, read the manual pages for more |
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| 54 | information. |
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| 56 | There are many auxiliary programs not installed. You can find them under |
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| 57 | the prog subdirectory. A list can be found in doc/progs. |
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