[ltp] LM_Sensors

[Eben King]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Pax wrote:

> I have just purchased an IBM Thinkpad 570e secondhand. I am planning to install Debian but
> have been reading horror stories vis-a-vis I2C and lm_sensors. This being my first laptop
> I'm not sure about procedure. Is this something that will install itself and can be run by 
> accident or does it have to be consciously installed and then run with malice aforethought? 
> If the former, how do I disable it during install, and if the latter does it appear as I2C 
> and lm_sensors or can it sneak in under another name? In short, how many chances out of
> 10 have I got of not trashing my new toy?

IME, lm_sensors won't run if it detects that it's on a Thinkpad.  I don't 
know what allowance that makes for "proved safe" machines.  Anyhow, IIRC 
ACPI does all that lm_sensors does (if that machine does ACPI), so you don't 
really need it.

WRT it getting on there unbeknownst to you, never do an "easy install".

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