[mythtv-users] lm_sensors and MythTV

Robert Tsai rtsai1111 at comcast.net
Sun Jan 22 02:48:01 UTC 2006


On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 05:44:40PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Ben Holt wrote:
> > On 21/01/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> >> I know the sensors use the i2c bus, as do my Hauppauge cards. The
> >> "sensor-detect" program seemed to want to activate the "sensors"
> >> on the PVR cards (I said no). Is this a known problem and has
> >> anybody had experience with it or perhaps even come up with a
> >> fix?
> >
> > I ran into this a while back and IIRC I read somewhere at the time
> > that using lmsensors with ivtv causes conflicts.  Removing
> > lmsensors fixed the problem.  No idea if that will change at any
> > point in the future.
>
> That's about what I had decided, but I've run into posts from folks
> running lm_sensors with MythTV. I think that would have worked if
> they had a mobo that used ISA access type sensors, but I'm  not
> ready  to replace the motherboard just to measure temps.
> 
> Guess I'll just continue putting my hand by the exhaust fan and
> seeing how warm it feels :-)

I'm not sure how applicable this is, but I'm running lm-sensors just
fine on my HD-3000 system. What if you compile all the sensor-related
stuff as a loadable module, and then only load the modules you want,
and don't load the sensor-related module for your PVR card?

--Rob
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