On Thursday 08 July 2004 21:31, L. Mark Stone wrote:

On Thursday 8 July 2004 02:43 pm, steve-ss wrote: <snip>

| Could anyone with an AMD give me reasonable working | values for the temp1 and temp2 sensors? And/or how to | monitor the fans correctly? Or must I move to Intel?

I have an Asus AV7-133 mobo with an Athlon 1200 on one workstation. We see CPU temps of 48-55 degrees C, depending upon load ambient air temperature. Chassis temps range from 29-35 degrees C.

We have never been able to get the fan rpm speed from the lm_sensors package, although the system BIOS displays it correctly.

Mark

In summer here we always seem to be on those upper ranges but another post indicates up to 85º is OK. I notice that the fan on the case (the one that makes the noise) can be mounted both ways, suck or blow. I wonder what is the correct way?

steve-ss wrote:

<>On Thursday 08 July 2004 21:31, L. Mark Stone wrote:

In summer here we always seem to be on those upper ranges but another post indicates up to 85º is OK. I notice that the fan on the case (the one that makes the noise) can be mounted both ways, suck or blow. I wonder what is the correct way?

In general, if its a front mounted fan you want it to pull air into the box, if its rear mounted to send air out of the box. Air then flows from front to back.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 | OK. Thanks. It's now correct. Is there any reason why I | can't just remove the sides of the case and kill the rear | mounted fan to remove the noise it makes? | Cheers, Steve. | That would be a really bad idea. The fans would then become useless. They are designed to be in an enclosed space. You would actually get *less* are flowing over and around the cpu and components. Just think about how a wind tunnel works and it might start to make sense. - --Sayf - -- Blue Moose IT Support www.bluemooseit.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA7leqh6qZaDhhuVMRApAQAKCFmCOaRFfG+QhVofVgBnJWMJxI8QCgxl7E MawvB6w0sgRILov5dft6S20= =+Crg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:31:40 -0400 "L. Mark Stone" wrote:

We have never been able to get the fan rpm speed from the lm_sensors package, although the system BIOS displays it correctly.

I had this problem. It was solved by changing the fan-divisors in the conf file. E.g. I changed:- set fan3_div 2 to set fan3_div 4 in /etc/sensors.conf and reran sensors -s c.f. the file lm_sensors-2.8.7/doc/fan-divisors - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/

On Thursday 08 July 2004 21:55, Ed Harrison wrote:

** Reply to message from steve-ss on Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:43:54 +0200

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I have the packman sensors rpm installed with 9.1 and am using gkrellm to monitor the sensors. The temp1 and temp2 sensors are working well I think, fluctuating between 35º and 55º but I can't get the fan sensors to show anything other than zero.

Could anyone with an AMD give me reasonable working values for the temp1 and temp2 sensors? And/or how to monitor the fans correctly? Or must I move to Intel?

I think that lm_sensors is installed off the DVD, but you need the packman 2.8.6 to get user space tools, mainly sensors-detect (as root) to let you know with modules to load. I load i2c-core i2c-sensor i2c-viapro and asb100 based on results to sensors-detect. I load them in /etc/sysconfig/kernel.

Something seems to coincide. After using sensors-detect, in /etc/modprobe.conf.local I have: alias char-major-89 i2c-dev and in /etc/init.d/boot.local I have: # I2C adapter drivers modprobe i2c-viapro modprobe i2c-isa # I2C chip drivers modprobe eeprom modprobe w83627hf # sleep 2 # optional /usr/bin/sensors -s does that make sense? Thanks for your help, Steve.