On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 28 March 2009 22:28:15 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to configure lm_sensors and sensors-detect identified these
>> two modules I don't know how to build.
>>
>> smartbatt
>>
>> coretemp
>>
>> I tried many config options when rebuilding the kernel 2.6.27.12
>> (vanilla-sources) but no luck in building the modules. Looking in the
>> kernel sources doc I can see the coretemp module but can't find the
>> corresponding config parameter in menuconfig. As for smartbatt, this is
>> what is available in the source tree:
>
> From any menu in make menuconfig, you can type '/' and enter a search string.
> Menuconfig will list all instances where it finds that string in item
> headings. coretemp is there.
>
> smartbatt is found at CONFIG_ACPI_SBS, you c

and coretemp is CONFIG_SENSORS_CORETEMP

Also, if you are new to lm_sensors, beware that sensors-detect only
works on a subset of the supported sensor chipsets. On my computer,
for example, it detected the wrong chipsets which "sort of" worked
(gave wrong/incomplete readings). I had to manually tell it which
sensor chipset my motherboard uses.

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