On Mon, 2005-24-01 at 18:02 -0500, David Niemi wrote: > On Sun, 2005-23-01 at 20:14 +0200, Markku Kolkka wrote: > > David Niemi kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika sunnuntai, 23. > > tammikuuta 2005 17:03): > > > found the sensors-detect script and i2cdetect in a different > > > location and now have the outputs of that for the sensors that > > > "may" work. > > > > > > This information just all gets put into the files that the > > > sensors- detect script gives? > > > > Yes, and next you may need to edit /etc/sensors.conf to adjust > > the drivers to your system's details. > > > > > What happens with the output, > > > is it graphical or are there other programs to read the > > > output? > > > > The sensor values are readable through sysfs, > > in /sys/bus/i2c/devices/<device>/ > > > > There are GUI programs for displaying the sensor values, e.g. > > gkrellm or ksysguard. > > > > Markku Kolkka > > markku.kolkka@xxxxxx > > > Thanks for the information everyone, it's installed (from the DVD) and > up and running, now I have to figure out how to compute the proper > temperatures. > > Temps are reported from the w83627thf chip & sensors as: > M/B: -3 > CPU1 -3.0 > CPU2 -3.0 > > I've tried putting in equations for the calculation of the temps to > resemble the BIOS temps but the equations seem to be ignored: > > -- snip -- > # ThermistorType = ??? > # Fix up a 'compute' line to match your thermistor type. > # Warning. You still don't have enough information to do this. > # ThermistorType = N > compute temp1 ((4.71 * @) * -1) > # ThermistorType = (??) > compute temp2 ((4.71 * @) * -1) > # ThermistorType = > compute temp3 ((4.71 * @) * -1) > # ThermistorType = > # compute temp ((X * ((1.20 * @) - 62.77)) - Y), ... > > # set limits to 5% for the critical voltages > << DELETED >> > > # set up sensor types (thermistor is default) > # 1 = PII/Celeron Diode; 2 = 3904 transistor; > # 3435 = thermistor with Beta = 3435 > # If temperature changes very little, try 1 or 2. > > # set sensor1 1 > # set sensor2 2 > # set sensor3 3435 > > label temp1 "M/B Temp" > label temp2 "CPU1 Temp" > label temp3 "CPU2 Temp" > # ignore temp3 > -- snip -- > > The information above is just a quick and dirty calculation, not a > detailed numerical analysis to produce the proper equation, though if > someone already has done this I would appreciate it very much if you > could pass on your knowledge. > > The instructions in sensors.conf & the LM_sensors haven't really helped > me much so if someone could provide some help I'd be grateful. > With GKrellm I finally found the offsets and factors for the temperature readings from the w83627thf chip. also, the line for the sensors.conf should be something like "compute temp1 @ + 40, @ + 41" I am using 40C as the offset but will refine the equations used as time goes on.
