Changeset 523

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Timestamp:
08/15/99 20:03:48 (9 years ago)
Author:
mds
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(mds) I thought we needed a SHORT version of the install instructions

to make things easy and to ensure that people run sensors-detect.
I put it at the top of the INSTALL file where people can't miss it.
Comments/corrections welcome.

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  • lm-sensors/trunk/INSTALL

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     1============================================================================= 
     2INSTALLATION - SHORT INSTRUCTIONS - NON-KERNEL INSTALLATION 
     3============================================================================= 
     4 
     5        - Make sure you also have the i2c package installed 
     6          in the same directory as lm_sensors2 
     7        - rmdir i2c 
     8        - ln -s ../i2c i2c 
     9        - cd i2c 
     10        - make (ignore 'no such file or directory'  warnings) 
     11        - (as root) make install 
     12        - cd ../lm_sensors2 
     13        - make (ignore 'no such file or directory'  warnings) 
     14        - (as root) make install 
     15        - prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh        (makes the devices in /dev) 
     16        - prog/detect/sensors-detect (determines installed hardware) 
     17        - Place the 'modprobe' commands output by sensors-detect in a 
     18          boot file like /etc/rc.d/rc.multi 
     19        - After those commands, put the line 'sensors -s' in the boot file 
     20          to initialize the sensors at boot time 
     21        - Place the lines output by sensors-detect in the module 
     22          configuration file /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf 
     23        - Reboot 
     24        - Verify correct installation of modules at boot time 
     25        - Use the command 'sensors' to check sensor status. 
     26 
     27 
     28============================================================================= 
     29============================================================================= 
     30 
    131Please read this file thoroughly before you try to install and run things. It 
    232will safe you many headaches. Installation is not really difficult, but there 
     
    170200not installed. doc/progs contains some documentation for each of them. 
    171201Most important are prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh, which creates /dev/i2c-* files, 
    172 and prog/detect/detect.pl, which tries to detect what adapters are 
     202and prog/detect/sensors-detect, which tries to detect what adapters are 
    173203present on your system.