Phil Perry wrote:
> On 05/29/2010 08:03 PM, Dr J wrote:
>> g wrote:
>>> Dr J wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> Now I can get fan speeds and voltages which were not available 
>>>> before...
>>>> Any ideas???
>>>
>>> do you have 'lm-sensors' and associated programs installed.
>>>
>>> easy way, open yum-ex, select 'all' and enter 'sensors' for filter.
>>>
>> Thanks for the reply. Yes I do have lm_sensors and it is working..Iget
>> results for theF71882FG module which gives fan speeds and voltages.
>> An examination of /etc/sysconfig/lm-sensors shows
>>
>> MODULE_0=coretemp
>> MODULE_1=f71882fg
>> .
>> Coretemp worked in SL5.4 but not in SL5.5
>> modprobe -l|grep coretemp shows:
>> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5/kernel/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.ko
>>
>>
>> CPU is an i7-920
>> TA
>>
>> Joe
>>
>
> Coretemp didn't exist in the 5.4 kernel so the only way you could have 
> had it working was if you've installed the driver from a 3rd party 
> repo - elrepo.org maybe?
>
> Redhat backported coretemp into el5.5 but it's still relatively old 
> (from around kernel-2.6.26 IIRC), and I'm not sure it and/or 
> lm_sensors in el5.5 supports i7 CPUs.
>
> I'd suggest you try the driver (and associated lm_sensors package 
> dependency) from elrepo.org:
>
> http://elrepo.org
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-coretemp
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Phil
>
>
Thanks for the response I will try your suggestions.

Joe