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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CPU temperature monitoring?
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 01:53:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5957955.Ff6gsEyHNX@energy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jpjsb3$hog$1@dough.gmane.org>

Am Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2012, 16:37:01 schrieb walt:
> I bought this desktop 4-core machine during the coolest part
> of the year and until very recently I could barely hear the
> CPU fan except for about one second during power-up when
> the fan spins way up and then quickly slows down.
> 
> Now it's hotter than Hades here and I'm very much aware of
> the fan noise, but I can't tell if the fan is beginning
> to fail (the noise sounds a bit harsh to me) or something
> is merely controlling the speed appropriately.
> 
> The machines BIOS has no settings whatever concerning the
> fan or temperature warnings, etc. so I have no idea how
> to find out the CPU temp.
> 
> The k10temp kernel module loads automatically at boot with
> no errors, so I just hope something (somewhere) is taking
> care of this stuff automatically.  But I'm only hoping,
> not knowing.
> 
> Any ideas how to find out for sure?

sensors

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-23 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-23 23:37 [gentoo-user] [OT] CPU temperature monitoring? walt
2012-05-23 23:53 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2012-05-23 23:59 ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-24  9:00   ` Neil Bothwick

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