Laptop CPU freezes--hdparm and harddrive temps/cycles

[Eberhard Roloff]

Larry Hartman schrieb:
>> Larry,
>>
>> what do all the nifty dials of ksensors report in regard to load and
>> cpu/hh temperatures?
>>
> 
> there is only the CPU temp sensor listed in the program config window....this 
> fluctuates between 103-140ish, the high end when the CPU is crunched.  
Did you try as root sensors-detect. If you are lucky a few sensors 
might be detected and afterwards KDE should offer them for display.

I
> placed the simple system monitor applet on my panel and the system tray icon 
> for ksensors to watch the CPU activity in conjunction with the CPU temp. 
> 
> I have smartmon tools installed--is there a gui related to this that is 
> convenient to mon hdd temp?  I do hear the occassional park click on one of 
> my harddrives every now and then, but am not counting anywhere close to 12 an 
> hour.

For sure there are commandline tools that I currently do not remeber. 
However, I experienced both on different machines: working harddsik 
monitoring via ksensors and no monitoring at all.
Again, should your BIOS have a "smartmon" (or very similar) 
configuration, be sure to activate this.

Kind regards
Eberhard

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> Larry
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