On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 06:42, Kent Nyberg wrote: > Hello, > My computer has those nice sensors that can report CPU temperature, fan > speed etc. I would like to get those working. > First of all, how come kudzu do not configure them? Is tgere a problem > with enabling them as default? > > My system runs very hot, although i do not think there is a fault of my > hardware, more the cause of lots of hardware and maybe a to small fan on > the cpu. I have configured the bios to halt my system when it runs to > hot, but lets say my system always is about one degree below the limit, > that cant be to good can it, even though the system is not complaining. > Hey, i don't even know if the bios actually can do the system-halt when > running Linux. :) > > So, the specs: (dont know if something more is needed, but VIA cant > change the sensor-chipset that much from release to release, can they?) > > If the lspci output is not enough, i do belive this is an Asus > mainboard. Not sure of more though :) > > [root@Leviatan setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu]# /sbin/lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] > Host Bridge > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge > 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 > Controller (rev 80) > 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 > Controller (rev 80) > 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 > Controller (rev 80) > 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) > 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge > 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) > 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] > (rev 74) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA > TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 11) > [root@Leviatan setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu] > I am guessing due the bugginess of many of the sensors it is not done in kudzu. First off do you have lm_sensors installed? If so run sensors-detect and follow its instructions. Also check the lm_sensors web site as they almost always have the info I need relating to sensors. Tes
