I've have a hot-running Tiger MP motherboard and I'd like to get a look under the hood, temperatures and what not, under RH8. Has anyone managed to accomplish this previously? I've been down various roads with lm_sensors previously (unsucessfully) and frankly it seems like the most complicated thing in the world. Is there a secret to getting this thing to work? Is there a better package available for enabling hardware monitoring? Something like motherboard monitor under Windows would be great.

Thanks

I just started playing with this myself recently... I have lm_sensors installed which came on the RedHat 8 CDs.

Basically all I did was typed in "sensors-detect" as root and answered most questions with the default answers. When it gets done it gives you a list of things that need adding to /etc/modules.conf and some other commands which need to be ran from a startup file. I added those to modules.conf and the others to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Then just type "sensors" and you'll get back a lot of info.

After trying this on various motherboards I've discovered that occasionally the sensors-detect run will have you doing modprobes for 3 or 4 or more different chips on the motherboard which can return information. Even the eeproms on SDRAM DIMMs. I only wanted voltage and temperature from the motherboard so I deleted some of the extra stuff from the modules.conf and rc.local files.

Hope this helps!

PS. Here's output from my home machine:

# sensors
w83782d-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
Algorithm: ISA algorithm
VCore 1: +2.04 V (min = +1.80 V, max = +2.20 V)
VCore 2: +1.53 V (min = +1.80 V, max = +2.20 V)
+3.3V: +3.40 V (min = +2.97 V, max = +3.63 V)
+5V: +5.07 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.48 V)
+12V: +11.86 V (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.11 V)
-12V: -11.72 V (min = -13.21 V, max = -10.90 V)
-5V: -5.26 V (min = -5.51 V, max = -4.51 V)
V5SB: +5.11 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.48 V)
VBat: +2.08 V (min = +2.70 V, max = +3.29 V)
fan1: 4821 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
fan2: 7180 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
fan3: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
temp1: +28°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) sensor = thermistor
temp2: +28.5°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) sensor = thermistor
temp3: +33.5°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) sensor = thermistor
vid: +2.00 V
alarms:
beep_enable:
Sound alarm disabled

Head on over to the lm_sensors supported devices page and see if your devices are supported, you may need to install the latest version, all the instructions are in the package.