Nishtya,

First, glad to hear you got it going

Second, I don't think posting here is "going to get you in trouble", if you feel that it is your distribution isn't appropriate here, I think it might come down to something else though....

Answers.

If you are running something "completely" foreign to Knoppix, say RedHat, you might not get as many, or as good, answers as to posting into a group "specificly" for the distribution. I think people here are a LOT more open to questions and issues, than say, in Debian Group, and most of the people here, will almost "bend over backwards" to help someone out.

You may be able to liken this group to the same thing you found out in lm-sensors documentation, it was written for RedHat installations, and some things don't "translate" right when you use them against Knoppix/Debian installs. This group/board helps almost all of the problems/issues (a lot more than others) on any Linux/GNU post questions - i've seen RedHat, Debian, and even Mandrake install questions being answered here - some people either "know" of the distribution, or have had it installed, or are running concurrent installs, so they can provide answers to a varied Linux base of questions.

I'm glad you got your answers to lm-sensors, and that it didn't "require" you to run off onto another distribution, just to get that working...

Hopefully, nothing else, considering what you went through to get that going, will be an issue in the future, for you - you've done a lot more than I have done - sheesh, kernel compiling, not something I want to be doing, but, I guess it can only help someone out in the future, having this knowledge. [?]

Good luck on your future usage, and hope to see you posting, in the future,
Cuddles