xsensors lacks support for coretemp module

[Rob Pearman]

Binary package hint: xsensors

Installed xsensors from Add/Remove Applications. On launching xsensors, the window is tiny and when I expand it out the window is blank.

Running xsensors version 0.50-1ubuntu1

Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) 64bit

Motherboard is an ASRock 2core1333-2.66G

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

What do you get when you type "sensors" in a command line?

[Rob Pearman (rob-pearman)]

Thanks for the tip.

"sensors" gave "No sensors found!". Running "sensors-detect" and stepping through with default responses identified the following kernel drivers required:

w83627ehf
coretemp

Having loaded these I ran "sensors" again in a terminal window and got some results (although several of these are flagged as "ALARM" - I've attached the full output FYI but I guess the detail of the results is probably not in scope of this bug).

Running "xsensors" again still results in a tiny window but shows the following in the terminal output:

Sensor 'w83627ehf' not supported by xsensors!
Sensor 'coretemp' not supported by xsensors!
Sensor 'coretemp' not supported by xsensors!

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

Well now we're getting somewhere. Thanks for the work and the information. I'll change the bug to reflect this, maybe have two, one for each of these unsupported modules.

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

From here:
http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.php?story=07/10/09/1854255&query=xsensors
X-sensors-0.60
- Added support for w83627ehf.

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/115386
Related I guess, kernel < 22 needs a patch for it.

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

Made a report for the new upstream version: Bug #206862

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

Reading the MOTU mailing list, I've discovered that coretemp support was added to version 0.60 of xsensors. Because an upgrade is required to fix this bug, I am marking it as a duplicate of bug 206862.

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

The patch for this revision comes from two files in the new upstream version (chips.h and chips.c) http://freshmeat.net/projects/xsensors/ and the author's patch for coretemp support, https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-September/004711.html .

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

To avoid conflict, please attach the debdiff only to one bug report and refer to this bug in the other bug reports. My comment to bug #73405 will apply here, too.

[Mike Ramsey (mikejramsey)]

I did sensors-detect and allowed it to add:
# Generated by sensors-detect on Tue Jan 5 11:47:32 2010
# Chip drivers
f71882fg

to /etc/modules

I restarted my box but x sensors is still minimized and blank.

I am running the latest Ubuntu 9.10 desktop. xsensors states that it is version 0.50.

I was following instructions found here: http://www.bradtrupp.com/ubuntu-cpu-temperature.html

Mike

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Lucid Lynx. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/xsensors/0.60-1

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "How to request new packages" at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#request-new-packages