Lm sensors

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]}

lm_sensors

KDE System Monitor, an lm_sensors frontend for KDE
Stable release	3.6.0 / October 17, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-10-17)[1]
Repository	github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors
Written in	C
Operating system	Linux
Type	System monitoring
License	GNU General Public License
Website	hwmon.wiki.kernel.org

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][better source needed][7][8][9]}

See also

• Free and open-source software portal

• Computer fan control
• envsys on NetBSD
• hw.sensors on OpenBSD / DragonFly BSD
• I²C
• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
• Super I/O
• Embedded Controller
• Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
• System Management Bus (SMBus)