sensors -s fails writing to /proc/sys/dev/sensors/*/* Manually writing (echo'ing values) to the file(s) works ok. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add any "set .*" statement in /etc/sensors.conf. 2. sensors -s Actual Results: thunderon root # sensors -s w83627hf-isa-0290: Can't access /proc file for writing; Run as root? thunderon root # emerge --info Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-amd64-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22 x86_64 5 GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/confi g /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="amd64 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt -cups encode foomaticdb gif imlib -java jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis pdflib png -q t quicktime sdl slang spell sse truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb readline tcltk X gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python gtk motif opengl ldap" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" MAKEOPTS="-j3" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
well, on x86_64 (amd64) we are pretty-much requiring 2.6 kernels these days because of 2.4 kernel problems. and lm_sensors, etc hasn't been ported to 2.6 yet afaik. So, not really something we can fix ... -Brad