Supported operating systems
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  Linux (requires kernel >= 2.4.14-pre8)

Supported hardware and BIOS versions
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	Inspiron 8000 (BIOS A17)
	Inspiron 8100 (BIOS A04)
	Inspiron 4000 (BIOS A10), no fan speed
	Inspiron 4000 (BIOS A18)
	Inspiron 4100
	Inspiron 3800 (BIOS A14), no fan speed
	Latitude C400 (BIOS A01)
	Latitude C510 (BIOS A07)
	Latitude C600 (BIOS A17)
	Latitude C610
	Latitude C800 (BIOS A17)
	Latitude CPiA (BIOS A14), no fan speed
	Latitude CPx J750GT (BIOS A13), no fan speed

	It does not work with the following models:
	  Inspiron 2500 (BIOS A10)
	  Inspiron 3200
	  Inspiron 5000e (BIOS A06)
	  Inspiron 7000
	  Inspiron 7500
	  Latitude LS H500ST

	(see http://www.debian.org/~dz/i8k/00-README for details)

Requirements
------------
  GKrellM >= 1.2.0 and even GKrellM 2.0 (http://gkrellm.net)
  Linux kernel >= 2.4.14-pre8
  SMM BIOS kernel module (http://www.debian.org/~dz/i8k/)
  i8kutils >= 1.5 (http://www.debian.org/~dz/i8k/)

SMM BIOS kernel module and utils
--------------------------------
  Your kernel must include the SMM BIOS kernel module written by
  Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@debian.org>.  The module is listed as Dell
  Inspiron 8000 support under the CPU configuration of your kernel
  configuration screen.  I recommend building it as a module so
  you can enable/disable APM when loading the module.

  After building the module and insmod'ing it, you will have a
  /proc/i8k that records the current cpu temperature, Dell service
  tag, fan states, apm state, etc.  The /proc/i8k file is periodically
  polled by the i8krellm plugin.

  You must also use the i8kfan utility included with the i8kutils
  package found at http://www.debian.org/~dz/i8k/.  i8krellm uses the
  i8kfan utility to control your fans.

Installing
----------
  Extract the tar file,
    tar xzf i8krellm-2.x.tar.gz

  Go into the new directory,
    cd i8krellm-2.x

  Installing for >= GKrellM 2.x
  -----------------------------
  Compile the plugin for GKrellm 2.x (the default),
    make

  Install the plugin for GKrellM 2.x (the default),
    make install        <--- installs to $HOME/.gkrellm2/plugins
    make site_install   <--- installs to /usr/share/gkrellm2/plugins

  Installing for GKrellM 1.x (Note the trailing "1")
  --------------------------------------------------
  Compile for GKrellM 1.x with,
    make i8krellm1

  Install for GKrellM 1.x with,
    make install1       <--- installs to $HOME/.gkrellm/plugins
    make site_install1  <--- installs to /usr/share/gkrellm/plugins

  And restart gkrellm.  The plugin should appear in the list of plugins.
  Click the enable button and re-position it if desired.

  As soon as you load the plugin for the first time, you may see
  error messages scrolling by in your terminal.  If you do, ignore
  them.  They will go away as soon as you enter the path to the
  i8kfan utility in the configuration tab for i8krellm and hit the
  Apply button.

