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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.
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.
Originally posted by opjose 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.
hey opjose, I found how to disable that image....it is the kde menu side image...so that I can at least disable it in the kde control center...now If I could change the actual image...
Originally posted by jonr Still no sensors found last time I rebooted after removing those modules. However, I
didn't take those lines out of sysinit.rc first. I've now removed them and next time I
boot I'll see what happens. (I also removed the modules with modprobe -r again.
By the way, though sensors-detect finds MAX6650 with a "confidence 4" for max6650
module, modprobe doesn't like either spelling, or other variants I tried, and keeps
saying "FATAL" not found. Oh, well.
You spent a lot of time trying to help me. Thanks! I've got a few other things to do,
believe it or not, but I'll keep experimenting and see if I can get the sensors to work
eventually. If not, it's not too important; I just like to keep an eye on the temperature
of the CPU, mainly.
no problem dude.....glad to do it.....
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
Adapter: ISA adapter
CPU core: +1.68 V (min = +2.00 V, max = +2.50 V) ALARM
+2.5V: +2.51 V (min = +2.33 V, max = +3.00 V)
I/O: +3.31 V (min = +4.10 V, max = +2.56 V) ALARM
+5V: +5.13 V (min = +1.27 V, max = +1.76 V) ALARM
+12V: +12.06 V (min = +15.36 V, max = +11.59 V) ALARM
CPU Fan: 2986 RPM (min = 2667 RPM, div = 2)
P/S Fan: 0 RPM (min = 8544 RPM, div = 2)
SYS Temp: +29.4°C (high = +45°C, hyst = +40°C)
CPU Temp: +27.6°C (high = +60°C, hyst = +55°C)
SBr Temp: +22.4°C (high = +65°C, hyst = +60°C)
...and it seems strange that the CPU temperature would be lower than the "SYS" temperature. I take CPU to mean the Pentium chip itself, which should normally be by far the hottest spot in the computer.
But my gkrellm values are close enough for assurance that a safe temperature is being maintained.
Originally posted by jonr 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
Adapter: ISA adapter
CPU core: +1.68 V (min = +2.00 V, max = +2.50 V) ALARM
+2.5V: +2.51 V (min = +2.33 V, max = +3.00 V)
I/O: +3.31 V (min = +4.10 V, max = +2.56 V) ALARM
+5V: +5.13 V (min = +1.27 V, max = +1.76 V) ALARM
+12V: +12.06 V (min = +15.36 V, max = +11.59 V) ALARM
CPU Fan: 2986 RPM (min = 2667 RPM, div = 2)
P/S Fan: 0 RPM (min = 8544 RPM, div = 2)
SYS Temp: +29.4°C (high = +45°C, hyst = +40°C)
CPU Temp: +27.6°C (high = +60°C, hyst = +55°C)
SBr Temp: +22.4°C (high = +65°C, hyst = +60°C)
...and it seems strange that the CPU temperature would be lower than the "SYS" temperature. I take CPU to mean the Pentium chip itself, which should normally be by far the hottest spot in the computer.
But my gkrellm values are close enough for assurance that a safe temperature is being maintained.
you may have to do some fine tuningwith the factors in gkrellm but is sensors are working you should be ok...
Originally posted by xavierh you may have to do some fine tuningwith the factors in gkrellm but is sensors are working you should be ok...
Yeah, some day I might plug in values to the formulas gkrellm developers provide for figuring the skew values, but since the readings displayed seem to be within 4 or 5 degrees F. of the values seen in the BIOS, that's close enough for government work, as we used to say when I worked for the government.
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.
Originally posted by xavierh hey opjose, I found how to disable that image....it is the kde menu side image...so that I can at least disable it in the kde control center...now If I could change the actual image...
Ok, here you go...
Instead of typing out instructions, here are some replacement side images...
Originally posted by jonr 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
Adapter: ISA adapter
CPU core: +1.68 V (min = +2.00 V, max = +2.50 V) ALARM
+2.5V: +2.51 V (min = +2.33 V, max = +3.00 V)
I/O: +3.31 V (min = +4.10 V, max = +2.56 V) ALARM
+5V: +5.13 V (min = +1.27 V, max = +1.76 V) ALARM
+12V: +12.06 V (min = +15.36 V, max = +11.59 V) ALARM
CPU Fan: 2986 RPM (min = 2667 RPM, div = 2)
P/S Fan: 0 RPM (min = 8544 RPM, div = 2)
SYS Temp: +29.4°C (high = +45°C, hyst = +40°C)
CPU Temp: +27.6°C (high = +60°C, hyst = +55°C)
SBr Temp: +22.4°C (high = +65°C, hyst = +60°C)
...and it seems strange that the CPU temperature would be lower than the "SYS" temperature. I take CPU to mean the Pentium chip itself, which should normally be by far the hottest spot in the computer.
But my gkrellm values are close enough for assurance that a safe temperature is being maintained.
That's the problem.
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.
Originally posted by opjose 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.
ok but how does kde know which banner to select : I have in that kicker folder banners for powerpack and other verions of mandrake besides the download. how does it know which one to choose?
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