Re: [SLE] Alternative to lm_sensors?

Jeffrey, On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:13, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

Gkrellm will display ACPI temperatures as well as lm_sensor temperatures. Don't know which other user-mode packages do. Of course, you must have a kernel with ACPI support. When I installed SuSE 9.2, ACPI was supported and worked on my desktop (PogoLinux Altura with Athlon XP 1800+ and MSI motherboard) and laptop (IBM T41 Thinkpad).

Thanks for the suggestion. I've installed GKrellM. (By the way, what on Earth does that name mean or stand for? I've seen it come up on this list time and time again, and I could never come up with an interpretation for it.) It's also interesting that the description text in the YaST installer calls it a utility for managing multiple monitors... Having installed it, I find it does find any any sensor data (in the "Info" tab of the "Sensors" configuration it says "No sensors detected."). I run stock SuSE kernels (as updated by YOU, of course). Shouldn't those include ACPI support? Must I do something special to enable it? I was under the impression that the default for hardware with ACPI support (which includes my mainboard) was for the corresponding kernel support to be enabled and that one had to explicitly disable it when it was unwanted. % uname -a Linux twain 2.6.5-7.145-smp #1 SMP Thu Jan 27 09:19:29 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Do you have any further suggestions for me? My first impressions are that I prefer this application to KSensors, so I'll probably stick with it. If I can get the ACPI information you describe, that would be even better. Thanks again. Randall Schulz

Jeffrey

Quoting Randall R Schulz :

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Jeffrey,

On Tuesday 22 February 2005 22:52, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:

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If you just want a temperature, have you tried ACPI?

I don't know what you mean by "try ACPI." Try what with it? What software? Would it allow the user-level software (e.g., KSensors) to display the values reported by the temperature sensors?

Randall Schulz