temperature

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:35:15PM -0400, Steve Haines wrote:
> 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.
> 

I've rebooted many times! Since the sensors aren't being detected,
gkrellm doesn't know of them. 

Bob