[CentOS] Updated Kernel sensors modules

Mon Jul 25 16:19:54 UTC 2011
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

On 25/07/11 17:04, Dejan wrote:
> Last week I upgraded my box to CentOS 6 and I'm very impressed so far with it.
>
> The only small issue so far is that it doesn't seem to recognize the
> new Sandy Bridge Core i5 CPU that I have and you can't monitor its
> temperature.
>
> I recompiled the latest coretemp module from the latest 2.6.39 kernel
> and the latest lm_sensors version however this still wasn't enough as
> the new module loads fine but still reports that there were no sensors
> found.
>
> I booted a Fedora 15 install and it recognized the CPUs and started
> reporting the temperatures so obviously the modules are there but
> maybe the coretemp is not the only thing that is needed.
>
> Does anyone know what else is needed for the sensors to be recognized?
>
> Thanks,
> Deyan


See here:

http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2011-January/031024.html

and the rest of that thread.