Fold BACKGROUND into README.

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BACKGROUND

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-When you want to communicate with a piece of hardware, you need a kernel
-driver (well, that is not quite true, but it is in most cases the only
-way to do it safely).
-
-The kernel modules communicate their information through the /sys inter-
-face. Because every motherboard is different, the sensor chips always
-advert the measurements at their pins. This means that the values they
-report are not always immediately relevant to you. They have to be
-labelled properly, and sometimes they must be scaled to correspond to
-the real world.
-
-libsensors is a (shared or static) library of access functions. It
-offers a simple-to-use interface for applications to access the sensor
-chip readings, to set new limits, and all other commonly needed things.
-It has a configuration file where you can put all the
-motherboard-specific labels and conversion rules. That way, all
-applications do not need to duplicate the effort and can simply link
-with libsensors and work out of the box.
-
-This package does not contain a nice graphical monitor. Look at the file
-doc/useful_addresses.html for pointers to such programs. It does contain
-an example console program that reports all current sensors values. This
-program is called 'sensors'. You can use it as a reference implementation
-for more intricate programs.
-
-The Linux 2.6 kernel has many, many sensor drivers, and there are lots
-of different sensor chips supported. Sometimes, it can be hard to 
-determine what chips and adapters you have, and which modules correspond
-to them. Fortunately, there is a user-space application 'sensors-detect'
-that should tell you exactly what is available, and what you need to do.

README

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 HARDWARE SUPPORT
 ----------------
 
+To find out what hardware you have, just run 'sensors-detect' as root.
+
 Most modern mainboards incorporate some form of hardware monitoring chips.
 These chips read things like chip temperatures, fan rotation speeds and
 voltage levels. There are quite a few different chips which can be used by
@@ -52,6 +54,36 @@ even need to wait for a new kernel driver to be written. Updating the
 lm-sensors package itself will not help.
 
 
+LIBSENSORS
+----------
+
+The kernel drivers communicate their information through the /sys
+interface. Because every motherboard is different, the drivers always
+advert the measurements at their pins. This means that the values they
+report are not always immediately relevant to you. They have to be
+labelled properly, and sometimes they must be scaled to correspond to
+real-world values.
+
+libsensors is a (shared or static) library of access functions. It
+offers a simple-to-use interface for applications to access the sensor
+chip readings and configure them as you like. It has a configuration
+file where you can put all the motherboard-specific labels and
+conversion rules. That way, all applications do not need to duplicate
+the effort and can simply link with libsensors and work out of the box.
+
+
+APPLICATIONS
+------------
+
+This package does not contain a nice graphical monitor. Look at the file
+doc/useful_addresses.html for pointers to such programs. It does contain
+an example console program that reports all current sensors values. This
+program is called 'sensors'. You can use it as a reference implementation
+for more intricate programs. It also contains a daemon watching for
+sensor values, logging alarms and feeding an RRD database with the sensor
+measurements.
+
+
 OTHER INFORMATION
 -----------------