Strange lm-sensors output

[Eberhard Roloff]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/9/28 Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de>:
>> generally motherboard sensor temperatures are vague, at best.
>>
>> Should this be your cpu core temps, you can set temp multipliers in the
>> sensors configuration, I think, this is /etc/sensors.conf, see the
>> relevant man pages.

Dothan,

Just now, I was able to look it up. The file is (now called):
/etc/sensors3.conf

>>
> 
> Thanks. I did go through the sensors manpage before posting, but saw
> nothing relevant. There is no mention of multipliers, either. However,
> now that I know what the issue is I should be able to google it from
> here.
> 
You are most probably looking for the "temperature computation" section. 
Imho the file is rather well documented, so you should have no 
difficulties to compute the output value to what your bios reports.


>> Alternatively, this can also be done in ksensors (shold you use kde)
>>
> 
> The user is using KDE on that machine, so I will look into it.
> 
Surely, this will work, as well. However, should the user use "sensors" 
on the command line or ex. xsensors as a frontend, the "baseline 
computation" inside sensors3.conf might be preferable.

hth
Eberhard