On Monday 30 July 2001 10:45 am, Roger Andreassen wrote:
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> <P>Hello,</P>
> <P> </P>
> <P>I'm going to pick a Socket A motherboard for an upgrade. It's
> possible to read the CPU temperature using software as long as you
> stay in Windows. My question seems misplaced at worst or funny at
> best, so I'll ask only once:</P> <P> </P>
> <P>1. How do you read the CPU temperature in Linux? Would you need a
> certain motherboard, or is it just down to the chipset?</P>
Well, you mentioned Abit, and I'm sure their boards have an
intergrated monitoring i2c chip. I chose a Soyo K7vta pro, because
I've always had great experiences with Soyo (and overclocking), it's
the only other board besides a Biostar that AMD still has on their
recommended motherboard list (most all Abit's were dropped, specially
for 266 FSB). The Soyo still has an ISA slot (the Biostar doesn't), and
the Soyo was cheap ;> Also the Soyo had strong Linux recommends from
LinuxHardware and DukeOfURL. Short answer, is yes, the mobo must be
able to support monitoring, any OS.
'lm_sensors' is the standard for hardware monitoring with Linux. I
use Mandrake and their kernels have long had the i2c modules included.
All that's needed is to install Mandrake's 'lm-Utils' rpm and run
'sensors-detect'. This loads and tests the appropriate i2c modules for
your board/chipset and generates a few lines that you need to add to
'rc.local' and 'modules.conf'. Then typing 'sensors' in a term will
ouput the hardwares temps, fan speeds , and voltages. Simple, but
depending on your distro you may need to re-compile your kernel for i2c
support and build the modules. lm_sensors docs are adequate for this
http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/
If you want a front end, I use Gkrellm. I created this script and
'chmod +x'd it, and put it in my <users> KDE2 Autostart dir
#!/bin/bash
sleep 2s
/usr/bin/kstart --ontop --alldesktops --skiptaskbar
/usr/X11R6/bin/gkrellm
(the last two lines above are all on one line)
I configure Gkrellm to only display CPU temp, update 10/sec, and
sized it to just fit on the top window title bar (Tbird 1.4 oc'd to
1.55g). You really ought'a use plain text when posting to a public
mailing list.
--
Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay
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