how to see cpu temperature in SUSE 11.3

aal · 03-12-2011, 01:12 AM

Hi all,

I just upgraded from suse 10.1/KDE3 to suse 11.3/KDE4 and I need to be able to see the cpu temperature.

I used to be able to see it either with the command "sensors" in a bash window or with ksysguard by setting up the appropriate sensor in the "system load" tab. Neither of these methods works now - I can only show the system temperature.
I need to keep an eye on the cpu temperature since my aging XP athlon machine overheats and can shutdown.

How can I display the cpu temperature?

Thanks in advance.

andrew.

corp769 · 03-12-2011, 01:15 AM

Run sensors-detect to configure sensors and see if you can detect it that way.

Cheers,

Josh

aal · 03-12-2011, 01:31 AM

Thanks corp769,

I ran sensor-detect and it found the VIA VT8231 integrated sensors group, which has drivers "via 686a".

I think that is the right thing.

Afterwards I ran "sensor" again but with the same result, so how do I turn these sensors on? When sensors-detect starts it states this programme helps identify which kernel modules to load to use lm sensors effectively. Can this be set up with Yast?

regards.... andrew.

corp769 · 03-12-2011, 01:36 AM

Is yast your package manager?

aal · 03-12-2011, 01:40 AM

corp769 · 03-12-2011, 01:44 AM

Did you select Yes for everything, and overwrite your settings, all as root? Just want to verify.

aal · 03-12-2011, 01:49 AM

thanks josh,

yes, I did all that as root and selected overwrite settings at the last step in "sensors-detect". Then re ran "sensors" with same result.

But I have not restarted the machine.

regards.... andrew.

aal · 03-12-2011, 01:57 AM

Hi,

I restarted the machine. Same result. I also checked the file that is supposed to be overwritten, /etc/sysconfig/lmsensors, and the right via module was there.

regards...

andrew.

corp769 · 03-12-2011, 02:00 AM

Do you have the lm_sensors service running?

aal · 03-12-2011, 02:02 AM

Hi,

good question. I don't know. How do I find out?

regards...

andrew.

aal · 03-12-2011, 02:05 AM

Hi,

I looked in system monitor process tab which lists all processes. No lm-sensors process is running.

regards..

andrew.

corp769 · 03-12-2011, 02:07 AM

Code:

service lm_sensors start
chkconfig lm_sensors on

The chkconfig is to start it on system startup.

aal · 03-12-2011, 02:11 AM

HI,

Did those two commands, as root and then reran sensors. same result.

regards...

andrew.

corp769 · 03-12-2011, 02:16 AM

What kind of computer/hardware are you using?

aal · 03-12-2011, 02:25 AM

HI,

It is an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor. GA 7DXE motherboard.

Same hardware I was using with SUSE 10.1, where lm_sensors worked fine.

regards... andrew.