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- README.Debian for lm-sensors
- ----------------------------
-
- lm-sensors requires kernel support to access sensor devices. There are
- two parts to these modules: generic drivers to access devices on the i2c
- bus, and drivers to support specific sensor devices.
-
-
- 2.4 kernels
- -----------
-
- The i2c modules can come from either the separate i2c-2.4-xx-x-xxx
- packages, the i2c-source package or the kernel-patch-2.4-i2c package. The
- patches package tends to be somewhat newer, and have more features and
- bugfixes. If you do that, you must enable "I2C /proc support" in your
- kernel configuration. Note that it is not necessary to load the
- corresponding module (i2c-proc) manually, it would be loaded automatically
- by modprobe when you load a sensor module.
-
- The lm-sensors modules are not distributed with the Linux kernel, but
- source is distributed separately in the lm-sensors-source package. They are
- also available in prebuilt packages lm-sensors-2.4-xx-x-xxx or in the
- kernel-patch-2.4-lm-sensors package.
-
- If you want to use the lm-sensors-source package in combination with the
- Debian kernel-package package; instructions for building the modules are
- in /usr/share/doc/lm-sensors-source/README.Debian in the lm-sensors-source
- package.
-
- Once you have the modules built, you need to probe for the sensors
- available on your system. You can use the sensors-detect program to do
- this.
-
-
- 2.6 kernels
- -----------
-
- All the necessary modules are included in the 2.6 kernel tree. Just have a
- look at "I2C Hardware Sensors Chip support" in your kernel configuration.
-
- Once you have your kernel properly configured, you need to probe for the
- sensors available on your system. You can use the sensors-detect program to
- do this.
-
- -- Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
-