[ltp] Installing linux, fear of lm_sensors

[Jim Harvey]

Philip Edelbrock wrote:
> 
> FYI- The chip used in the particular laptops had a faulty state machine 
> for interpreting I2C bus commands.  Under certain circumstances, the 
> chip would interpret commands meant for other chips as a command for 
> it's self to write data to it's memory.  IBM doesn't use the chip any 
> more (the AT24RF08, if I remember correctly), but it's still a problem 
> with old hardware. :'(
> 
> Newer distros should begin to carry newer versions of lm-sensors which 
> detects for potentially vulnerable IBM hardware and disable it's self.> 
> Phil
>
> James Mckenzie wrote:
> 
>> Andrey:
>>
>> The problem with lm sensors is that it attempts to read the BIOS EPROM
>> and messes it up.

Do you know what version of lm-sensors has that fix, and has it been verified
that it in fact, works?  I'm using RH 8.0 here.  I tried to uninstall the
lm-sensors rpm per a previous post's suggestion and it failed due to a KDE
dependancy.
-- 
  After Armageddon, there will be only three things left: Kudzu vines creeping
  over the ruins, Cockroaches feasting on the blackened ashes, and somewhere
  an IBM PC saying "Abort, Retry, Ignore -- Abort, Retry, Ignore -- Abort... "
  Jim Harvey - WB8NBS/9 - Naperville, Illinois - Linux on a Thinkpad 770Z