Eureka! (At least momentarily)
I got my sensors to work and display on gkrellm as before when I was using Mdk 9.2.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure how I achieved this. I do know I took the information OUT of the files that sensors-detect suggested I put in there. I ran sensors-detect numerous times answering "yes" or "no" various ways to the different proposals. The last time was the charm. Now if I can just refrain from running sensors-detect again, I ought to be OK. :p |
You first need to make sure that the sensors daemon is started at boot.
The lm_sensors package installs the daemon, but make sure it's enabled to start as root. Check the startup service via the MCC. If it's enabled typing "sensors" at a prompt should dump the information read back from the sensors. If "sensors" cannot see this, neither can gkrellm. The next minor issue is that there is not always a one to one correspondence to what gkrellm assigns and what the sensors actually are. Again sensors comes in handy so you can set up the sensors plugin in gkrellm. Often you also have to not only assign the correct sensors to the plugin, but also set values to adjust the displayed output to be within the correct range. |
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again pcheck the website that I gabve you and post your questions there....chances are they would know what to do amigo..... |
The daemon was starting up OK most of the time when the sensors weren't able to display their data. I could also stop and restart it from a terminal but it didn't do any good. Now everything's working OK, though, so if I just don't break it it will be OK.
I've never been really sure which sensor is measuring what: output of "sensors" command is now: Code:
via686a-isa-6000 But my gkrellm values are close enough for assurance that a safe temperature is being maintained. |
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you may have to do some fine tuningwith the factors in gkrellm but is sensors are working you should be ok... |
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Thanks again for all the help! Even when suggestions don't work, at least they keep me plodding away towards a solution, and usually I find something that works. |
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Instead of typing out instructions, here are some replacement side images... http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=5368 http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9505 Note: if you put it into /usr/share/apps/kicker instead it works for all users. |
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lm-sensors doesn't actually know what returned value belongs to what device. It pays to find out. I ran my CPU at high utilization, then quickly rebooted and dropped into the bios to record the max temps reported by the bios (which tend to be correctly assigned). I then brought up Linux again and went back to a high utilization program and ran sensors to establish which sensor was reporting what. Then I adjusted the labels and sensors in gkrellm (plus offsets) so everything displayed correctly. It's a bit of a hassle because neither lm_sensors nor gkrellm maintain a motherboard database like other programs do, to help determine what each returned value corresponds to. |
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you the man!!!! Imanaged to rename the picture.....questions, how does kde know which picture to display? |
KDE uses the kside image from the kicker folder.
For other icons, it will select an icon of the same name from the currently selected theme giving precedence to themes in ~/.kde So most themes have a kmenu.png icon for the star on the kicker menu, etc. |
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It selects the one found in the kicker folder originally.
In other words if you replace that file with one of the same name, then it becomes the kside image. |
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