[ltp] Sensors still an issue?

M. Leo Cooper linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Fri, 31 May 2002 08:41:31 -0700 (MST)


On Thu, 30 May 2002, Richard Neill wrote:

> I understand that Mandrake deliberately "break" KDE in such a way as not 
> to have sensors-detect as a dependency. In 8.1/8.2, it is not installed 
> by default.
> However, I assume you could always install it (by rpm), then just delete
> (or replace with something harmless) the binary file. That means that 
> RPM would be none the wiser :-)

You could also (as root) delete all the files in the
/lib/modules/2.4.XXXX/kernel/drivers/sensors directory, where "XXX" is the
kernel patch level. This would prevent the sensors module(s) from loading.



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