Sensors & 2.6.7 kernel

oscarBravo

Another Gentoo question for y'all:

I'm running a 2.6.7 kernel, and I'd like to be able to monitor the mobo's sensors. I tried to emerge lm-sensors, but it depends on i2c, which won't build because it's designed for a 2.4 kernel.

Is there a way of using the built-in i2c functionality of the 2.6.7 kernel to monitor the mobo - preferably before I melt down my CPU?

Relevant kernel config settings (from "grep I2C .config"):

# I2C support
CONFIG_I2C=y
CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=y

# I2C Algorithms
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=y

# I2C Hardware Bus support
CONFIG_I2C_ISA=y
CONFIG_I2C_VIA=y
CONFIG_I2C_VIAPRO=y
CONFIG_I2C_SENSOR=y

slartibardfast

the latest package doesn't need i2c(as its already in 2.6.7) but it is hard-masked for x86 at the moment.

quick way round this is to specify the ebuild directly :-)
emerge /usr/portage/sys-apps/lm-sensors/lm-sensors-2.8.6.ebuild

then later you can add:
sys-apps/lm-sensors -x86
to your /etc/portage/package.keywords
(this is for hastle(and -U) free emerge system/world)

maxheadroom

Originally posted by slartibardfast
then later you can add:
sys-apps/lm-sensors -x86
to your /etc/portage/package.keywords
(this is for hastle(and -U) free emerge system/world)

Will this work? I thought you could only specify ~ARCH in package.keywords? What I did was copied /usr/portage/sys-apps/lm-sensors/lm-sensors-2.8.6.ebuild to /usr/local/portage/sys-apps/lm-sensors/lm-sensors-2.8.6.ebuild

and edited the ebuild in my overlay. Must try your way and see what happens

EDIT: Also, if you sepcify emerge =/full/path/to/ebuild then it won't get recorded in the world file.

slartibardfast

indeed it doesn't work! also it's no longer hard-masked as -x86 atm

correct entries for /etc/portage/package.keywords are now
sys-apps/i2c ~x86
sys-apps/lm-sensors ~x86

i2c seems strange but on emerge all that happens is:
* Non-2.4 kernel detected; doing nothing...

Originally posted by maxheadroom
if you sepcify emerge =/full/path/to/ebuild then it won't get recorded in the world file.

cheers, had forgotten that :eek:

oscarBravo

Bingo! Got it installed, only to find that the vt1211 module hasn't been ported to 2.6.x yet. :rolleyes: Ah well...