Using your package manager, make sure you have lm_sensors libs installed. I don't know why it's not working, if you said it has worked in the past.

Hi Josh,

I checked yast for lm_sensors libs. No such package installed, and not present in any repository. So I googled up rpm for lm_sensors and found packages for many distros. All the fedora packages (for example) have names like lm_sensors-libs but all the SUSE packages had names like libsensors4-xxxx. So I checked Yast again and yes, the latest rev of libsensors4 is installed.

It looks like SUSE has moved on?

regards...

andrew.

I guess so. Anyone else out there with this problem with lm_sensors? I officially don't know what the problem. Sorry man!

Thank you for your help Josh,

I also don't want the problem and hope someone else has come across it and can assist.

I'm looking at SUSE forums as well. A similar problem had come up there, and I looked into the solution, but no luck, except the person responding to the thread was saying that they hadn't used lm_sensors since KDE 3 days!

I also tried installing another application gkrllm (which amongst other things is supposed to be able to display cpu temperature if lm_sensors is installed). There were temperature options amongst the sensors, but they do not have the right sensors. For the record, the gkrllm config options for temperature sensors are: acpitz@0temp1 and THRM. Both sensors show 32.0 degrees all the time.

Similarly, when I run "sensors" I get this:

~> sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +32.0°C (crit = +75.0°C)

And it only ever shows a temperature of 32.0 C. And the same goes for the only temperature sensor that is available in the KDE 4 "system monitor" (used to be sysguard in KDE 3). They all show acptiz-virtual-0 and nothing of the via686a lm_sensors configuration is to be found.


Finally, I have checked the file /etc/sensors3.conf which I understand is supposed to configure the sensors setup by sensors-detect. It contains a via686a section, which looks like this:

chip "via686a-*"

label in0 "Vcore"
label in2 "+3.3V"
label in3 "+5V"
label in4 "+12V"

set in2_min 3.3 * 0.90
set in2_max 3.3 * 1.10
set in3_min 5.0 * 0.90
set in3_max 5.0 * 1.10
set in4_min 12.0 * 0.90
set in4_max 12.0 * 1.10

So there were no labels setup for temperature sensors. But also, the voltage sensors are not being reported. I edited the file so the section now looks like this:

chip "via686a-*"

label in0 "Vcore"
label in2 "+3.3V"
label in3 "+5V"
label in4 "+12V"

set in2_min 3.3 * 0.90
set in2_max 3.3 * 1.10
set in3_min 5.0 * 0.90
set in3_max 5.0 * 1.10
set in4_min 12.0 * 0.90
set in4_max 12.0 * 1.10


label temp1 "CPU Temp"
label temp2 "M/B Temp"


Restarted the machine, then reran "sensors" with the same result. Since sensors command does not show the voltages, it must be getting configuration somewhere else?

regards.....

andrew.

For the hell of it, have you tried using conky to attempt to display the temp?

Hi,

conky - command not found. not installed. not in repositories.

I think this has to do with acpitz. The tz stands for "thermal zone". That's new. apparently many systems have a tendency to report dummy values if they don't support thermal zone. Apparently it is possible to disable the TZ functionality, but I can't yet see how.

regards...

andrew.