Desperately looking for a way to monitor temps.

[Slagathor]

I am running Mandriva 2006 power pack. I have a nForce 4 mobo, +3700 CPU and have no idea the temps of anything but the video card.......:D :D
For some reason it installed 2.6.12-12mdksmp kernel, I also tryed the 64bit version of Mandriva 2006, also to no avail.
Also, when I first installed, I had to go with no-apic kernel in order for it to find my SATA HDD.


I have tryed LM_Sensors, installed the newest, also tryed the i2cdetect, that finds:
Installed I2C busses:
i2c-1 smbus SMBus nForce2 adapter at f400
i2c-0 smbus SMBus nForce2 adapter at f800

I have no clue what them are, in Gkrellm, under sensors it shows the PWM and GPU, althought he PWM never moves from 40.

I searched here, and found a post about 2.6 kernels haveing this stuff built it already, so if anybody can expound upon this I would be very grateful....(nana2)

[Gnu_Raiz]

What happens when you type in senors? It should give you the temps as well as the voltage. You might need to adjust them in your lm-sensor.conf file, but it should work.

Gnu_Raiz

[seeker]

Your question got me to looking around. I'm using SuSe 9.2, and know nothing about Mandriva, but I had to install a package from the installation DVD called Sensors. It installed files in 3 directories, but the one that appears to be the primary is in usr/share/doc/packages. I'm still playing with this, so I can't offer any specific help. If you figure it out for your machine and distro, please post it.

[Slagathor]

When I type Sensors, it tells me it hates me, and wants me to die....... :surrender
Actually it just reports, No sensors found....

I tryed xmbmon also, and same thing there.
I think the IO chip is a Fintec(spelling) F71872F.

I have fought with LM_Sensors for a few days and am getting tired of it...:D
But it says it uses I2C, which is pre built into the 2.6 and higher kernel and should work with NF4 boards.

In /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/ theres a folder called Thrm with some blank files in it.

I also tryed Fedora 4, and no love there either, but I like it, so I will prolly make the switch...(nana2)


Perhaps what I need to do is check where and how it access's the chip, and edit the .conf accordingly......
Other then that, I have not a clue.......

[Jason_25]

Have a look at this (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2780&highlight=lm-sensors) link.

You have to run the mkdev.sh script first. Then run sensors-config.