Problems with dell 8600

[Steve Haines]

Try downloading and installing mbmon. That has a nice readout of all the
temps and fan speed. It's in Warty universe, version 2.04-5. xmbmon
gives you a bit of a GUI and a graphed display, if you like that kind of
thing.

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 17:21 -0500, NeoChaosX wrote:
> Apologies to bumping back up, but I have an Dell Inspiron 5100 which is
> prone to overheating, so I'd love a way to monitor fan speed, CPU
> temperature and such. When I tried the "sudo modprobe i8k" command that
> hector tried, I also got the FATAL error. The error also pointed out
> that the i8k.ko driver in
> /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-3-386/kernel/drivers/char/ is missing, but when I
> check in that directory, Nautilus shows that it's there.  ](*,) I also
> get the /proc/i8k not there problem when trying to run i8kutils...so
> can anybody help me out here?
> 
> 
> -- 
> NeoChaosX
>