Well, while I don't feel guilty if someone else dies stupid (each to their own), I can try to give some pointers ;)

As you pointed out what I have not done, but not where I can read what I should have done, this message doesn't help me much. I don't want to study electrical engineering before I can use some monitoring software.

I was pretty annoyed too to have to dive into the guts of lm_sensors, but that's the current state of its development. Run sensors-detect to get info about your hardware. I recommend deleting every section from sensors.conf which isn't relating to your chip, as contrary to sensors's claims, the previous sections spill into the next one. Edit sensors.conf according to the instructions in the package somewhere. Hope that your mobo is very close to one of the sections already in sensors.conf, because otherwise you're at a point where a study of electrical engineering is advantageous. Expect to have to swap labels - if something constantly reads around -12V, the +5V label next to it isn't going to be pot luck. Not all mobos monitor every voltage. You could ask on the lm_sensors mailing list. Once correctly configured, I find even the fan control is quiet good... but it's not automagic to get to that point. You'll need to fix up the normal CPU temperature range in any case, as nobody can know beforehand what chip you'll stick on. I'd venture to say, lm_sensors is currently only for tinkerers unless you hit lucky. Therefore you're probably best to close the bug again, my guess is that SUSE isn't going to be able to bring lm_sensors from pre-school to adulthood. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.