[ltp] Sensors still an issue?

[Richard Neill]

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 :-)

Richard



Boyan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>As far as I know there is NO solution to the lm-sensors issue because
>>of the method used by IBM to update the EEPROM used to hold BIOS
>>information.  Basically, do not use the lm_sensors package because of
>>the possibility of the BIOS being completely erased.
>>Better that the fan runs all the time than not at all.
> 
> 
> OK, got the message and will wait for another year or so, in the hope
> that the fan will not wear down in the meanwhile.
> 
> By the way I must admit that I had the suse 8.0 sensors.rpm package
> installed for a couple of hours (without running detect). The package
> is installed per default and I was tired of the persistent Yast
> warnings of unsatisfied KDE 3.0 dependencies linked with the sensors.
> When those dependencies are satisfied, i.e. sensors installed, suddenly
> the KDE taskmanager works properly, which is nice when killing
> processes and applications from within a graphical interface. Without
> sensors.rpm the process manager and ksysguard do not work ("Connection
> to local host has been lost"). So it seems the sensors package has been
> 'successfully' integrated into KDE 3.0 to the regret of many thinkpad
> owners.
> 
> Regards,
> Boyan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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