README.Debian for lm-sensors ---------------------------- lm-semsors requires kernel support to access sensor devices. There are two parts to these modules: generic drivers to access devices on the i2c bus, and drivers to support specific sensor devices. The i2c modules can come from either the separate i2c-source package or the mainline Linux kernel. The i2c-source package tends to be somewhat newer, and have more features and bugfixes; however, as of kernel 2.4.13, you can also use the in-kernel i2c support. If you do this, you must enable "i2c /proc support" in your kernel configuration. The lm-sensors modules are not distributed with the Linux kernel, but source is distributed separately in the lm-sensors-source package. I recommend building modules using lm-sensors-source in combination with the Debian kernel-package package; instructions for building the modules are in /usr/share/doc/lm-sensors-source/README.Debian in the lm-sensors-source package. Once you have the modules built, you need to probe for the sensors available on your system. You can use the sensors-detect program to do this. Note that there is a critical problem with the firmware on IBM ThinkPad laptops, such that the lm-sensors modules can cause permanent hardware damage. You may not want to use lm-sensors on these machines until this problem is solved. -- David Z. Maze