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| author | Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com> | 1999-08-15 18:03:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark D. Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com> | 1999-08-15 18:03:48 +0000 |
| commit | 5e7be13d8d4859fda45d8eab7c52d26b4231ed7f (patch) | |
| tree | 8d1d47fe20544f59460ff55169302159c65c2cff /INSTALL | |
| parent | 8861601cc203db0bd927873c84173dd956eaeeb4 (diff) | |
| download | lm-sensors-git-5e7be13d8d4859fda45d8eab7c52d26b4231ed7f.tar.gz | |
(mds) I thought we needed a SHORT version of the install instructions
to make things easy and to ensure that people run sensors-detect.
I put it at the top of the INSTALL file where people can't miss it.
Comments/corrections welcome.
git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@523 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 32 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,33 @@ +============================================================================= +INSTALLATION - SHORT INSTRUCTIONS - NON-KERNEL INSTALLATION +============================================================================= + + - Make sure you also have the i2c package installed + in the same directory as lm_sensors2 + - rmdir i2c + - ln -s ../i2c i2c + - cd i2c + - make (ignore 'no such file or directory' warnings) + - (as root) make install + - cd ../lm_sensors2 + - make (ignore 'no such file or directory' warnings) + - (as root) make install + - prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh (makes the devices in /dev) + - prog/detect/sensors-detect (determines installed hardware) + - Place the 'modprobe' commands output by sensors-detect in a + boot file like /etc/rc.d/rc.multi + - After those commands, put the line 'sensors -s' in the boot file + to initialize the sensors at boot time + - Place the lines output by sensors-detect in the module + configuration file /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf + - Reboot + - Verify correct installation of modules at boot time + - Use the command 'sensors' to check sensor status. + + +============================================================================= +============================================================================= + Please read this file thoroughly before you try to install and run things. It will safe you many headaches. Installation is not really difficult, but there are a few pitfalls. @@ -169,5 +199,5 @@ USEFUL PROGRAMS The prog subdirectory contains lots of useful programs, many of which are not installed. doc/progs contains some documentation for each of them. Most important are prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh, which creates /dev/i2c-* files, -and prog/detect/detect.pl, which tries to detect what adapters are +and prog/detect/sensors-detect, which tries to detect what adapters are present on your system. |