README for lm_sensors
IMPORTANT NOTES
* The libsensors configuration file (/etc/sensors.conf) is never overwritten
by our installation process, so that you won't lose your personal settings
in that file. You still can get our latest default config file in
etc/sensors.conf.eg and manually copy it to /etc/sensors.conf if you want.
You will then want to edit it to fit your needs again.
* The format of /etc/sensors.conf changed with lm-sensors >= 3.0.0.
If you have a custom configuration file using the old format, you can convert
it using the sensors-conf-convert script. Otherwise just overwrite your old
configuration file with the new default one.
KERNEL CONFIGURATION
* Enable "I2C support" (CONFIG_I2C=y or m). On many motherboards, the sensor
chip is connected to the SMBus, which is supported by I2C in the Linux kernel
* Enable "I2C device interface" (CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=m). sensors-detect needs
this to probe for SMBus hardware monitoring chips.
* In I2C Hardware Bus support, enable all drivers you might need, preferably
as modules. If you're not sure, select them all.
* Enable "Hardware Monitoring support" (CONFIG_HWMON=y or m).
* Enable all hardware monitoring drivers you might need, preferably as modules
