Hi,
I just rebooted and everything was ok.
Moreover. In the server lm_sensors work just fine!
So it realy is not tainted drivers ...
I installed a new version of lm_sensors and I am still a bit puzzled withe
the results ..

Regards,
Pedro

> Hi Tilman ,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
> It seems to me that the problem is not that "inocent".
> dmesg shows:
>
> i2c /dev entries driver
> hwmon: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> hwmon_vid: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> lm85: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> pnp: Device 00:07 disabled.
>
> Meaning that lm85 simply does not work.
> lm_sensors stopped working.
> I can not even run /usr/sbin/sensors-detect because it can not find any
> sensor on the PC!
>
> Is there a way to make hwmon accept tainted modules?
>
> Best regards,
> Pedro
>
>
>
> > On 26.09.2006 23:56, pedrocsort-e@yahoo.com wrote:
> > > I just updated OpenSuSE 10.1 and I had sensors running before this
update.
> > > sudently it seems that after then kerbnel up-date
> > > from the original 2.6.16.13 to 2.6.16.21
> > > there is a kernel message that says (dmesg):
> > >
> > > hwmon_vid: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> > > lm85: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> > >
> > > This was working before,
> >
> > And it probably does still work.
> >
> > > moreover: it is installed in the kernel source
> > > tree of the lattest kernel.
> >
> > But not in 2.6.16.21, so there.
> >
> > > How can I "untaint" this module
> >
> > You can't, and moreover, you don't need to. It wouldn't change
> > anything for you. Just ignore that silly message. It's just Novell
> > abusing the Linux kernel taint mechanism for telling you: "Don't
> > come to us if you have any problems with this."
> >
> > HTH
> > Tilman
> >
> > PS: <personalgripe>
> > Had no end of trouble with this myself as co-maintainer of an
> > open source driver which SuSE all of a sudden decided to denounce
> > as "tainting their kernel" even though it is under GPL and all.
> > Nowadays my driver's README file has an additional paragraph just
> > for telling the users: "If you run SuSE/Novell please ignore their
> > silly taint message." But of course the complaints along the lines
> > of: "Your driver is tainting my kernel, why isn't it open source
> > licensed?" still keep coming.
> >
> > Thank you, SuSE. NOT.
> > </personalgripe>
> >
> > --
> > Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc
> > Bonn, Germany
> > - In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
> > In practice, there is.
>