From 8de138348ad4cdb0bc0c9e2f7421534e35537190 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Delvare Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:24:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation about the sensor type selection. Suggested by Takeru Komoriya. git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@2307 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0 --- doc/chips/it87 | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/chips/it87 b/doc/chips/it87 index 493de4d8..249c39d4 100644 --- a/doc/chips/it87 +++ b/doc/chips/it87 @@ -97,16 +97,18 @@ The IT87xx only updates its values each 1.5 seconds; reading it more often will do no harm, but will return 'old' values. The sensor type can be set at runtime as of release 2.8.2. -To change sensor x to a thermistor, 'echo 2 > sensorx' -where x is 1, 2, or 3. -To change sensor x to a thermal diode, 'echo 3 > sensorx'. -Any other value is invalid. +To change sensor N to a thermistor, 'echo 2 > sensorN' +where N is 1, 2, or 3. +To change sensor N to a thermal diode, 'echo 3 > sensorN'. +Give 0 for unused sensor. Any other value is invalid. To configure this at startup, put the following lines in the it87 section of /etc/sensors.conf. -2 = thermistor; 3 = thermal diode +2 = thermistor; 3 = thermal diode; 0 = unused set sensor1 3 set sensor2 3 set sensor3 3 +If you set a sensor to 0, you'll also want to ignore its value: + ignore sensorN The fan speed control features can be enabled by setting the bits 0-2 of the fan_ctl register to 1. (Note: bits 6-4 of this register must be set to