Hi guys. I'll preface this message by saying I'm a linux newb. Please try to keep it to simple things.

I just finished installing GKrellm and my problem now is that I can get the sensors for cpu temperature to work. When I click on the button in the configuration dialog, nothing happens.

I've been looking around on here and someone made the commet that I should recompile the kernel and make sure acpi is enabled. That's fine and dandy, but it sounds like not a project for a newb. Is there any way that I can check it see if acpi is compiled in the kernel? Next, any suggestions on getting the cpu temperature to work?

Thanks in advance.

BTW...running..

Athlon tbird 1.2
512M RAM
20G HDD
Fedora Core 1

anything else that would be helpful?

You need lm-sensors. I don't know if Fedora ships with it or if it is part of the default install but you still need to set it up even if it is installed.

Everything you need to know is available from the site above. If you have any more specific problems later on, let us know and we'll try to help.


Håkan

I might totally be wrong here because I'm pretty much a newb too, but did you check that it's enable in the bios? I know that my bios has a setting for monitoring processor fan speed, which can be turned off. So I thought maybe that might be true of proc temperature too. just a guess.

first of all you have to enable acpi in the kernel. make sure /boot/grub/grub.conf includes acpi=on among your kernel params. Make sure apm is _off_. next run redhat-config-services and make sure apmd is disabled while acpid is enabled (the two sometimes conflict). reboot your system. when up and running, check /proc/ to see if there is an acpi directory in there. if there is go to /proc/acpi and look in there for something thermal (it's different per chipset). One my pc it's /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature. if you just cat that file you will get the current temperature. You can find out which acpi module you are using with the lsmod command or with "cat /proc/modules"