Software:Lm sensors

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lm_sensors
KDE System Monitor 5.14.png
KDE System Monitor, an lm_sensors frontend for KDE
Stable release
3.6.0 / October 17, 2019; 4 years ago (2019-10-17)[1]
Repositorygithub.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors
Written inC
Operating systemLinux
TypeSystem monitoring
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitehwmon.wiki.kernel.org

lm_sensors (Linux-monitoring sensors) is a free open-source software-tool for Linux that provides tools and drivers for monitoring temperatures, voltage, humidity, and fans. It can also detect chassis intrusions.[citation needed]

Issues

During 2001/2004, the lm_sensors package was not recommended for use on IBM ThinkPads due to potential EEPROM corruption issues on some models when aggressively probing for I2C devices.[2][3][4] This has since been dealt with, and the separate README file dedicated to ThinkPads was removed in 2007.[5]

In 2013, the sensors-detect command of lm-sensors began disrupting the gamma correction settings of some laptop display screens. This occurs while it is probing the I2C/SMBus adapters for connected hardware monitoring devices. Probing of these devices was disabled by default.[6] [7][8][9]

See also

References

  1. on GitHub
  2. Constantine A. Murenin; Raouf Boutaba (2009-03-17). "OpenBSD Hardware Sensors Framework.". AsiaBSDCon 2009 Proceedings, 12–15 March 2009. Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan (published 2009-03-14). http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2009-sensors-paper.pdf. Retrieved 2019-03-04. 
  3. Constantine A. Murenin (2010-05-21). "5.2. I2C bus scan through i2c_scan.c; 7.3. lm_sensors". OpenBSD Hardware Sensors — Environmental Monitoring and Fan Control (MMath thesis). University of Waterloo: UWSpace. hdl:10012/5234. Document ID: ab71498b6b1a60ff817b29d56997a418.
  4. "lm-sensors/README.thinkpad". 2004-10-14. https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors/blob/14856e37e84be6eeb8310c939dceeb7438437079/README.thinkpad. 
  5. "History for lm-sensors/README.thinkpad". https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors/commits/master/README.thinkpad. "lm-sensors should now be safe to use on Thinkpad laptops. Jean Delvare committed on 24 Sep 2007" 
  6. ArchWiki Contributors (4 May 2018). "lm_sensors". https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lm_sensors#Laptop_screen_issues_after_running_sensors-detect. Retrieved 18 May 2018. 
  7. Larabel, Michael (26 September 2013). "LM-Sensors Sensor-Detect Is Causing Hardware Issues". https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ3MDE. Retrieved 18 May 2018. 
  8. Delvare, Jean (5 September 2013). "lm-sensors". http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki.  Also available at "lm_sensors". https://hwmon.wiki.kernel.org/lm_sensors. Retrieved 18 May 2018. 
  9. Toskin, Andrew; Roeck, Guenter (2017). "Issue #17: Add list of risk factors to documentation". https://github.com/groeck/lm-sensors/issues/17. Retrieved 18 May 2018. 

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