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"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> posted |
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5bdc1c8b0704081721o5e65da49k9e1b4505a054a337@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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below, on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:21:00 -0700: |
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> On 4/8/07, Christoph Mende <ch.mende@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 15:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> > Hi, |
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>> > I have an Asus A8N-E motherboard which had a motherboard chipset |
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>> > fan go bad yesterday. After doing some reading I found many folks |
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>> > have had this same problem and switched successfully to Zalman |
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>> > passive heat sinks so I did the same thing today. The machine has |
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>> > been up for about 4 hours with no problems. So far so good.... |
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>> > |
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>> > My question is how can I monitor chipset temp from my my desktop to |
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>> > watch this for awhile? If I drop into BIOS I see a temperature listed |
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>> > and had to turn off boot time warnings about the chipset fan going to |
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>> > slow so it seems the BIOS knows what's going on. |
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>> > Is there a way for me to do this in Gnome? |
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>> > |
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>> > Thanks in advance, |
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>> > Mark |
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>> |
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>> emerge lm_sensors ;> |
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>> there's probably some plugin for gdesklets too, dunno if there's |
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>> something for the panel |
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> Thanks. I'll go read about that. |
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As Christoph said, lm_sensors. That's the low-level userland stuff. |
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You'll need drivers for whatever sensor chips are on your mobo -- check |
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the mobo specs and enable the correct ones in the kernel. A very few |
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might not be in the kernel yet, you'd have to merge them separately or as |
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patches, but with the 2.6 kernels they've done quite well at keeping the |
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sensors updated in the kernel mainline and add new ones regularly. |
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If you are lucky and/or did your homework and have a mobo from a |
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manufacturer that's suitably Linux friendly, it's possible you'll be able |
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to download a ready-made lm_sensors config from their site, just as one |
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might download MSWormOS drivers. I know Tyan does that with a lot of |
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their boards, including the one I have -- one of the big reasons I went |
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with Tyan. Of course, mine's a $400+ dual Opteron server board, too. |
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I'd not necessarily expect the same with a sub-$100 cheapie. |
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Once you have the kernel drivers and correct lm_sensors config setup, |
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you'll probably want a front-end for it as well. Here, I just use |
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ksysguard, which sees the lm_sensors stuff and offers it for display. |
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There's ksensors as well, and I believe Super-Karumba desktop applets for |
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it as well, on the KDE side. I understand there are gdesklets and the |
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like on the GNOME side, but don't use it so wouldn't have a clue on that, |
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other than what I've happened to read from time to time. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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