Hi folks, I recently ‘deployed’ a new mainboard, which naturally has a different BIOS and set-up to my old one. Running ‘sensors’ with the new one does not give much info.
AFAICS, other distros put a line in /etc/modules or /etc/modprobe.conf. I do not have either file. Do I simply create one of the above and put the driver in there? Or does openSuse have its own way of doing this?
Thanks guys. I am very dim. I put the line nct6775 in to /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf, rebooted, and then did lsmod and sensors. No sign of the module being loaded. I have googled about, and can’t find an example of a populated 99-local.conf file, so I do not know the syntax… Should I have put
On 2015-01-31 11:06, wakou wrote:
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> Hi folks, I recently ‘deployed’ a new mainboard, which naturally has a
> different BIOS and set-up to my old one. Running ‘sensors’ with the new
> one does not give much info.
There is a “sensors-detect” script that should tell you what to do.
> AFAICS, other distros put a line in /etc/modules or /etc/modprobe.conf.
> I do not have either file. Do I simply create one of the above and put
> the driver in there? Or does openSuse have its own way of doing this?
Because if a module doesn’t load automatically, it is a bug. That file
should be empty or missing in a proper distro. So they say
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Thanks Robin, I have run sensors-detect. Which is how I found the module nct6775 . But it does not get loaded, I have to modprobe it. I want it to load on boot.
sensors-detect should offer you to store the configuration to /etc/sysconfig/sensors.
This is then read on boot by lm_sensors.service and the configured modules will be loaded by it.
You might have to enable lm_sensors.service manually though:
sudo systemctl enable lm_sensors
Even this should be done automatically by sensors-detect, but after a quick glimpse at the script it seems to look for the lm_sensors.service in the wrong path.
Yes, that’s right. However, it is still necessary to do
systemctl enable lm_sensors
and start it with
systemctl start lm_sensors
Because if a module doesn’t load automatically, it is a bug. That file
should be empty or missing in a proper distro. So they say
Not quite. That really only applies to hardware buses/ports supporting PNP hardware. Some of the sensor hardware is apparently attached to legacy ISA buses. The ‘sensor-detect’ utility probes for such hardware. The program probes a number of different buses and mentions
This program will help you determine which kernel modules you need
to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. It is generally safe
and recommended to accept the default answers to all questions,
unless you know what you're doing.
Some south bridges, CPUs or memory controllers contain embedded sensors.
Do you want to scan for them? This is totally safe. (YES/no):
Some hardware monitoring chips are accessible through the ISA I/O ports.
We have to write to arbitrary I/O ports to probe them. This is usually
safe though. Yes, you do have ISA I/O ports even if you do not have any
ISA slots! Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (YES/no):
The thread is actually about the OP wanting the 'nct6775 driver to load automatically. (This driver supports particular Nuvuton chipsets used for temperature monitoring.)
Thanks Conram and Deano. I have enabled the service in YAST, and lm_sensors now loads the module for me. I am still none the wiser as to exactly how to do this myself, but it now works, and calling ># sensors reports the info.
