temperature

[Steve Haines]

Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:10:22AM -0400, Steve Haines wrote:
> 
> 
>>>
>>>Supposedly one can do this with lm-sensors, but I haven't been able to
>>>get that to work correctly with any recent kernels.  You can also get
>>>voltage, temperature and fan speed data using mbmon, but the numbers
>>>sometimes look strange (on one of my computers it shows 201 deg C and 
>>>if that was true I suspect it would have failed long ago). 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I have the temperatures, fan speeds, voltages, etc. working right now on 
>>Ubuntu (they also work in Mepis and Libranet). My hardware is very 
>>pedestrian: an Athlon K7 at 950 Mhz on an otherwise unnamed motherboard. 
>>The BIOS is pre 1998. The kernel is the default 2.6.8-i386.
>>
>>The back end of the measuring is done by lm-sensors. Install it, and run 
>>"sensors-detect" in a terminal. "man sensors-detect" for more info. 
>>There is also a very informative website for lm-sensors. I just followed 
>>the dialog script and accepted the defaults. Eventually you will be 
>>given a choice to write the suggested module changes into /etc/modules. 
>>I accepted the option, rebooted, and the modules loaded fine.
> 
> 
> 
> I've done all that and it still doesn't work for me.  I have a MSI K7T 
> Turbo2 MB with an AthlonXP2000+ CPU.  Sensors-detect said to install 
> i2c-viapro, i2c-isa, eeprom and Via686a to /etc/modules.  I did so and 
> only get the following response when running sensors (which has nothing 
> to do with any of the above modules):
> 
> Thomson DDT 7610 ATSC-i2c-0-61
> Adapter: cx8800[0]
>  
> Those are both related to my pchdtv-3000 television tuner card.
> 
> Bob
> 
I'm sure not an expert with that stuff. I assume you re-booted, etc? Did 
you run gkrellm after rebooting? When I did that, it picked up the 
output from the sensors automatically. After opening the configuration 
dialog, then under Builtins --> Sensors, then in the right hand pane, 
click on Setup, and try to pull down the menu marked "temperatures." 
That's where I found the sensor output. Also under "fans" and "voltages."

What wasn't apparent at first glance is that I had to pull down those 
menus in the right-hand pane. The only tipoff was the little arrow that 
shifts from right to down when you click on it (at least, it is really 
little on my old 14" monitor!). Once the menu entries are pulled down, 
there is an enable box for each one that you want to see in the gkrellm 
panel on the desktop.