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Date:      Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:25:12 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1017786312.33d274@mired.org>
To:        Paulius Bulotas <paulius@kaktusas.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GKrellM with_sensor
Message-ID:  <15523.38984.6431.190268@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020328215708.GA2376@kaktusas.org>
References:  <20020328180238.GA98199@kaktusas.org> <15523.31286.791038.233453@guru.mired.org> <20020328215708.GA2376@kaktusas.org>

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In <20020328215708.GA2376@kaktusas.org>, Paulius Bulotas <paulius@kaktusas.org> typed:
> On 02 03 28, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > In <20020328180238.GA98199@kaktusas.org>, Paulius Bulotas
> > <paulius@kaktusas.or
> g> typed:
> > > does anyone has GKrellM working and reporting sensor status? For
> > Works fine for me. Note that it only works properly on a subset of
> > available system monitoring hardware, and if your hardware isn't in
> > that subset, it can cause your system to crash.
> it doesn't crash my system, it even doesn't show such Builtin - Sensors 
> (although I saw how it looks in demo and enabled it at compilation ;).
> I looked over sensors.c and found, that I was missing smb and friends.
> Added smb,smbus,intpm,iicbus,iicsmb recompiled kernel, still nothing ;)
> I have m/b Chaintech 7AIA/100 Via KT133-686B (sensors.c mentions via686a
> and via686) and Athlon ;)
>                                                               
> Any ideas?

A couple. You don't need smb and friends. They can be used, but aren't
required. Check that the binary is setuid. Then check that the system
security level is at 0 or -1. Either one of those will cause opening
the device to fail, which is what causes sensors to be unavailable in
gkrellm.

	<mike
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