[CentOS] trying to get lm_sensorts to work

On 12/31/2009 10:41 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Jerry Geis<geisj at pagestation.com>  wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to get lm_sensors to work.
>>
>> did the yum install lm_sensors
>> service lm_sensors start
>>
>> sensor -s
>> and it says no sensors found.
>>
>> did lsmod | grep it87 and
>> it87                   57061  0

Did you run sensors-detect, and if so, which variant of it87 did it detect?

>
> You may want to read this forum thread:
>
> https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=24010&forum=38
>
> and give the packages from ELRepo a try.
>
> Akemi

Indeed. The standard it87 driver in 5.4 only supports IT8705F and 
IT8712F. I backported additional support for IT8716F, IT8718F, IT8720F 
and IT8726F Super I/O chips into the it87 module in ELRepo (kmod-it87), 
which will also automatically update lm_sensors as a dependency from the 
same repo.

I reported this upstream over 18 months ago and it's now scheduled to be 
fixed in 5.5, maybe.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446061
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448223

In the meantime, the ELRepo package has the latest updated driver for 
this hardware.