> I've not found an obvious way to set it in sensors.conf. Could you
> point me to some doumentation, thanks.
sensors.conf supposedly _is_ the the documentation ;)
Search for the following line in /etc/sensors.conf:
chip "via686a-*"
After this line, add:
set fan1_div 4
set fan2_div 4
Save, quit, run "sensors -s" (as root), that should do it.
> Is this new version required only for the via686 chip or should be a
> general advise for Debian Etch users to upgrade to lm-sensors >=
> 2.10.3 for kernels >= 2.6.22?
The problem affects almost all hardware monitoring chips, so this is a
general advice. I've added a note about it on the lm-sensors website.
Alternatively though, you could have recompiled your kernel with
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y, then lm_sensors 2.10.1 would have worked
fine again. Sorry for not mentioning this before, this might have been
easier than upgrading lm_sensors.