On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:42, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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...
"D'Oh!, D'Oh!, D'Oh! Look at me! I'm a big fat idiot!" (Since we're playing the cultural reference game, I'll leave it to someone out there to identify that quote...) From the Description pane of the GKrellM entry in the YaST Install & Remove module: "With a single process, GKrellM manages multiple stacked monitors and supports applying themes to match the monitors appearance to your window manager, Gtk, or any other theme." I read "monitors" as video monitors. Anyway, I'm really liking this application. It's highly customizable, something I always like. I still haven't figured out how to get ACPI-derived sensor information displayed. The man page for GKrellM mentions "/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/", but on my system, that directory is empty (and there is no "/proc/acpi/thermal" at all). So maybe my hardware just doesn't supply thermal information via ACPI. Now I'm off to look for GKrellM plug-ins. Thanks again for the GKrellM tip. Randall Schulz