Comment 4 for bug 688944

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Anton¡o Sch¡fano (skiantoz) wrote : Re: [Bug 688944] Re: Gkrellm without libsensors is incompatible with asus_atk0110

On 14/12/10 12:23, laysan_a wrote:
> Okay, I compiled from source obtained from devs. site. There was no need
> to change the configuration, since libsensor support is the default.
> Works great! All my atk0110 readings were recognized immediately. From
> what I could gather from a cursory websearch, the libsensor support was
> dropped after libsensor was updated and gkrellm was not. This was back
> in 2007. There was a patch developed very soon but support was never re-
> allowed. Someone should really take care of this.
>
Hi Laysan,

That is exactly what I did - and with the same result ;)
I agree with you, someone should re-allow libsensors support in.
BTW I just tried on my eeepc: thanks to libsensors, gkrellm was able
to display my laptop's fan speed.
Probably other hardware would benefit too...