[gentoo-amd64] chipset temperatures?

[gentoo-amd64] chipset temperatures?

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I have an Asus A8N-E motherboard which had a motherboard chipset
fan go bad yesterday. After doing some reading I found many folks have
had this same problem and switched successfully to Zalman passive heat
sinks so I did the same thing today. The machine has been up for about
4 hours with no problems. So far so good....

   My question is how can I monitor chipset temp from my my desktop to
watch this for awhile? If I drop into BIOS I see a temperature listed
and had to turn off boot time warnings about the chipset fan going to
slow so it seems the BIOS knows what's going on.

   Is there a way for me to do this in Gnome?

Thanks in advance,
Mark
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] chipset temperatures?

[Christoph Mende]

On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 15:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I have an Asus A8N-E motherboard which had a motherboard chipset
> fan go bad yesterday. After doing some reading I found many folks have
> had this same problem and switched successfully to Zalman passive heat
> sinks so I did the same thing today. The machine has been up for about
> 4 hours with no problems. So far so good....
> 
>    My question is how can I monitor chipset temp from my my desktop to
> watch this for awhile? If I drop into BIOS I see a temperature listed
> and had to turn off boot time warnings about the chipset fan going to
> slow so it seems the BIOS knows what's going on.
> 
>    Is there a way for me to do this in Gnome?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark

emerge lm_sensors ;>
there's probably some plugin for gdesklets too, dunno if there's
something for the panel

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] chipset temperatures?

[Mark Knecht]

On 4/8/07, Christoph Mende <ch.mende@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 15:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I have an Asus A8N-E motherboard which had a motherboard chipset
> > fan go bad yesterday. After doing some reading I found many folks have
> > had this same problem and switched successfully to Zalman passive heat
> > sinks so I did the same thing today. The machine has been up for about
> > 4 hours with no problems. So far so good....
> >
> >    My question is how can I monitor chipset temp from my my desktop to
> > watch this for awhile? If I drop into BIOS I see a temperature listed
> > and had to turn off boot time warnings about the chipset fan going to
> > slow so it seems the BIOS knows what's going on.
> >
> >    Is there a way for me to do this in Gnome?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Mark
>
> emerge lm_sensors ;>
> there's probably some plugin for gdesklets too, dunno if there's
> something for the panel
>

Thanks. I'll go read about that.

;> ???????

Again, thanks.
- Mark
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[gentoo-amd64] Re: chipset temperatures?

[Duncan]

"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> posted
5bdc1c8b0704081721o5e65da49k9e1b4505a054a337@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:21:00 -0700:

> On 4/8/07, Christoph Mende <ch.mende@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 15:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >    I have an Asus A8N-E motherboard which had a motherboard chipset
>> > fan go bad yesterday. After doing some reading I found many folks
>> > have had this same problem and switched successfully to Zalman
>> > passive heat sinks so I did the same thing today. The machine has
>> > been up for about 4 hours with no problems. So far so good....
>> >
>> > My question is how can I monitor chipset temp from my my desktop to
>> > watch this for awhile? If I drop into BIOS I see a temperature listed
>> > and had to turn off boot time warnings about the chipset fan going to
>> > slow so it seems the BIOS knows what's going on.
>> >
>> >    Is there a way for me to do this in Gnome?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> > Mark
>>
>> emerge lm_sensors ;>
>> there's probably some plugin for gdesklets too, dunno if there's
>> something for the panel
>>
> Thanks. I'll go read about that.

As Christoph said, lm_sensors.  That's the low-level userland stuff.  
You'll need drivers for whatever sensor chips are on your mobo -- check 
the mobo specs and enable the correct ones in the kernel.  A very few 
might not be in the kernel yet, you'd have to merge them separately or as 
patches, but with the 2.6 kernels they've done quite well at keeping the 
sensors updated in the kernel mainline and add new ones regularly.

If you are lucky and/or did your homework and have a mobo from a 
manufacturer that's suitably Linux friendly, it's possible you'll be able 
to download a ready-made lm_sensors config from their site, just as one 
might download MSWormOS drivers.  I know Tyan does that with a lot of 
their boards, including the one I have -- one of the big reasons I went 
with Tyan.  Of course, mine's a $400+ dual Opteron server board, too.  
I'd not necessarily expect the same with a sub-$100 cheapie.

Once you have the kernel drivers and correct lm_sensors config setup, 
you'll probably want a front-end for it as well.  Here, I just use 
ksysguard, which sees the lm_sensors stuff and offers it for display.  
There's ksensors as well, and I believe Super-Karumba desktop applets for 
it as well, on the KDE side.  I understand there are gdesklets and the 
like on the GNOME side, but don't use it so wouldn't have a clue on that, 
other than what I've happened to read from time to time.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] chipset temperatures?

[Mark Knecht]

On 4/8/07, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/8/07, Christoph Mende <ch.mende@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 15:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >    I have an Asus A8N-E motherboard which had a motherboard chipset
> > > fan go bad yesterday. After doing some reading I found many folks have
> > > had this same problem and switched successfully to Zalman passive heat
> > > sinks so I did the same thing today. The machine has been up for about
> > > 4 hours with no problems. So far so good....
> > >
> > >    My question is how can I monitor chipset temp from my my desktop to
> > > watch this for awhile? If I drop into BIOS I see a temperature listed
> > > and had to turn off boot time warnings about the chipset fan going to
> > > slow so it seems the BIOS knows what's going on.
> > >
> > >    Is there a way for me to do this in Gnome?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Mark
> >
> > emerge lm_sensors ;>
> > there's probably some plugin for gdesklets too, dunno if there's
> > something for the panel
> >
>
> Thanks. I'll go read about that.
>
> ;> ???????
>
> Again, thanks.
> - Mark
>

Christoph,
   OK, it's up and running at least in a terminal:

lightning ~ # sensors
k8temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Core0 Temp:
             +43°C

it8712-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
VCore 1:   +1.39 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
VCore 2:   +0.00 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)   ALARM
+3.3V:     +3.20 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
+5V:       +4.81 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +6.85 V)
+12V:     +12.16 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max = +16.32 V)
-12V:      -5.15 V  (min = -27.36 V, max =  +3.93 V)
-5V:      -13.64 V  (min = -13.64 V, max =  +4.03 V)   ALARM
Stdby:     +4.87 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +6.85 V)
VBat:      +3.09 V
fan1:     1548 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 8)
fan2:        0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 8)
fan3:        0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 8)
M/B Temp:    +40°C  (low  =    -1°C, high =  +127°C)   sensor = thermistor
CPU Temp:    +42°C  (low  =    -1°C, high =  +127°C)   sensor = thermistor
Temp3:       +27°C  (low  =    -1°C, high =  +127°C)   sensor = thermistor

lightning ~ #

   At least now I can watch the temp this way and make sure the M/B
temp doesn't get out of line with the new passive heat sink I
installed.

   Ended up that I had to do a kernel upgrade to get this working so
I'm now at 2.6.21-rc5-rt12. It had been 7 months since I'd touched the
kernel.

Thanks very much,
Mark
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] chipset temperatures?

[Peter Humphrey]

On Sunday 08 April 2007 23:50:30 Christoph Mende wrote:

> emerge lm_sensors ;>
> there's probably some plugin for gdesklets too, dunno if there's
> something for the panel

Or you could try the incomparable gkrellm, which I seem to remember runs 
fine on Gnome.

$ equery l krell
[ Searching for package 'krell' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [ ~] app-admin/gkrellm-2.2.10 (2)
[I--] [ ~] x11-plugins/gkrellaclock-0.3.4 (2)
[I--] [  ] x11-plugins/gkrellm-hddtemp-0.2_beta-r1 (0)
[I--] [  ] x11-plugins/gkrellmitime-1.0.1 (2)
[I--] [  ] x11-plugins/gkrellmoon-0.6 (2)
[I--] [  ] x11-plugins/gkrellsun-1.0.0-r1 (1)
[I--] [ ~] x11-plugins/gkrelltop-2.2.6-r1 (0)
[I--] [  ] x11-themes/gkrellm-themes-0.1 (0)

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] chipset temperatures?

[Isidore Ducasse]

le Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:42:49 -0700
"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> a écrit:

> Hi,
>    I have an Asus A8N-E motherboard which had a motherboard chipset
> fan go bad yesterday. After doing some reading I found many folks have
> had this same problem and switched successfully to Zalman passive heat
> sinks so I did the same thing today. The machine has been up for about
> 4 hours with no problems. So far so good....
> 
>    My question is how can I monitor chipset temp from my my desktop to
> watch this for awhile? If I drop into BIOS I see a temperature listed
> and had to turn off boot time warnings about the chipset fan going to
> slow so it seems the BIOS knows what's going on.
> 
>    Is there a way for me to do this in Gnome?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark

Try sys-apps/lm_sensors and gnome-extra/hardware-monitor . You'll find more info at
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Sensors
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] chipset temperatures?

[Stratos Psomadakis]

i used lm_sensors with gkrellm ;)
O/H Isidore Ducasse έγραψε:
> le Sun, 8 Apr 2007 15:42:49 -0700
> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> a écrit:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>    I have an Asus A8N-E motherboard which had a motherboard chipset
>> fan go bad yesterday. After doing some reading I found many folks have
>> had this same problem and switched successfully to Zalman passive heat
>> sinks so I did the same thing today. The machine has been up for about
>> 4 hours with no problems. So far so good....
>>
>>    My question is how can I monitor chipset temp from my my desktop to
>> watch this for awhile? If I drop into BIOS I see a temperature listed
>> and had to turn off boot time warnings about the chipset fan going to
>> slow so it seems the BIOS knows what's going on.
>>
>>    Is there a way for me to do this in Gnome?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Mark
>>     
>
> Try sys-apps/lm_sensors and gnome-extra/hardware-monitor . You'll find more info at
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Sensors
>   

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