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| | 12 | This is the summary page listing over 200 devices supported by the lm_sensors package. Unless noted, these drivers are supported by us and included in our lm_sensors package. Other drivers not supported by us but compatible with our package are listed as well for your information. |
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| | 14 | Drivers are listed in two groups: '''bus''' and '''sensor chip'''. In general, you need one of each. Bus drivers are the I2C/SMBus bus masters. Unless your sensor chip is on the PCI or ISA (I/O) bus, a bus driver is required to access any device on the bus. PCI and ISA sensors shouldn't need a bus driver, but the older ones still use the 'dummy' bus driver i2c-isa. Chip drivers are used to access the sensor chips themselves and export the readings. |
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| | 16 | To find out '''what driver you need and what chips you have''' use the sensors-detect utility in our package. If your version of sensors-detect failed to detect a chip, you should try the [http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/prog/detect/sensors-detect?format=txt latest version of sensors-detect]. |
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| | 18 | You may also try our '''[wiki:iwizard/1 Installation Wizard]'''. |
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| | 20 | If you would like us to support a chip '''not''' listed below, or listed as 'not planed', please [wiki:AuthorsAndContributors contact us]. Please indicate if you can help in development, testing, or donations. We don't |
| | 21 | have much spare time, so the more help you can provide, the better your chances to get a chip supported fast. |
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| | 23 | '''Call to developers, testers and device manufacturers''': Our efforts are now concentrated on adding support for new devices. If you would like to assist us with driver writing, testing or project donations, please [wiki:FeedbackAndSupport contact us]. |
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| | 25 | For the latest information on new Linux 2.4 drivers in our distribution, see the top of our [source:lm-sensors/trunk/CHANGES LM Sensors CHANGES] and [source:i2c/trunk/CHANGES I2C CHANGES] documents. For Linux 2.6, the drivers are added to the [http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git;a=summary kernel source tree] directly. |
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| | 27 | For instructions on how to check our latest code out of subversion, see the bottom of our [wiki:Download download page]. For Linux 2.4, remember to get '''both lm-sensors and i2c''', and to compile and install i2c before compiling lm-sensors. For Linux 2.6, lm-sensors is enough (you don't even need the kernel part of it.) |
