Re: Disable libsensors in 2.2.9

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:20:17 -0600
Ian Pilcher <[email protected]> wrote:

> [pilcher@home sys]$ cd /sys/devices/platform/i2c-9191/9191-6000
> [pilcher@home 9191-6000]$ ls
> alarms      fan2_input    in1_max    in3_min    temp1_input     temp3_max
> bus         fan2_min      in1_min    in4_input  temp1_max
> temp3_max_hyst
> driver      hwmon:hwmon0  in2_input  in4_max    temp1_max_hyst  uevent
> fan1_div    in0_input     in2_max    in4_min    temp2_input
> fan1_input  in0_max       in2_min    name       temp2_max
> fan1_min    in0_min       in3_input  power      temp2_max_hyst
> fan2_div    in1_input     in3_max    subsystem  temp3_input
> 
> The sysfs devices have the correct names, but the library is "auto-
> magically" mapping them to what it believes (incorrectly) are the
> proper human-readable names.

Thanks for the info.  So 2.2.10 should work for you if you want to build
it yourself.  One thing you could do is build 2.2.10 and run gkrellm from the
build tree without doing the "make install" step.  Then if it works OK, just
copy the gkrellm binary over the existing binary from your 2.2.9 installed
package.  Later if you want to upgrade packages you can install a 2.2.10
or later RPM with everything falling into place.

You'll just need to remember to run "gkrellm --without-libsensors".
Or, you might do it this way:
   1) Build a 2.2.10 gkrellm as I say above, but use for the make command:
         make without-libsensors=yes
   2) Now you can just run "gkrellm".
   3) Don't upgrade to any 2.2.10 RPM package because that would
       require using the --without-libsensors flag to gkrellm.
   4) Upgrade to any gkrellm package >= 2.2.11 because I plan to
       update the sensors code to try to handle the libsensors
       name mapping for the gkrellm 2.2.11 release.

However, note that while I've got code that tries to migrate configs when
changing from libsensors<->sysfs, it won't work with the name mapping.

Anyway, good luck ... it appears anybody running
the FC6 2.2.9 gkrellm with a via686a has a problem.

Bill
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