Lmsensors for desktop. Any point?

arubin · 05-30-2006, 08:51 AM

In the course of browsing this site I have come across discussion of lmsensors.

Is this just for laptops? Is there any point in trying lmsensors on a desktop? Would it enable me to run my machine quieter?

And a question in passing. I saw lmsensors on the sourceforge site. There is tgz package under 10.2 for 64 bit. Is this just for slamd64 users or could I running a slackware 10.2 on an AMD 64 and a kernel I havecompiled for AMD 64 use that package?

oneandoneis2 · 05-30-2006, 09:00 AM

I run it to keep an eye on the temperatures in my desktop, but that's about it..

dennisk · 05-30-2006, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by oneandoneis2

I run it to keep an eye on the temperatures in my desktop, but that's about it..

Which can be useful. Just this weekend I had a desktop reboot mysteriously. The CPU fan locked up. If I'd had a temp readout dockapp installed in WindowMaker or had been running Gkrellm) I would have seen it coming.

Dennisk