Problems with lmsensors, alternatives?

[cybertron]

I would like to be able to read information from my motherboard sensors, but unfortunately when I attempted to install lmsensors it hung my system badly, and before I could even get it to reboot I had to completely shut off power to it or it just beeped an allegedly non-existent beep code at me. It wouldn't even let me shut it off again with the power button.

The worst part is that the first hit on my Google search was someone on the lm_sensors mailing list with the same problem on the same motherboard that I have, but unfortunately there is no solution, so I have to assume it was never fixed. Here's the page I found it on: http://archives.andrew.net.au/lm-sensors/msg05939.html

Anyway, I was wondering if there was some other way of monitoring the motherboard sensors. I really only want the CPU temp because I'd like to mess with overclocking a little, but I don't want to push it if I can't monitor the temps. Right now all I have is the ambient temp on my case, which helps a little but not much.:confused:

[chucksaysword2]

I use lm_sensors with the ABIT NF7-S just fine. The modules I have loaded are :


i2c-nforce2
i2c-isa
eeprom
w83627hf
i2c-dev
i2c-proc


My kernel version is 2.6.8-rc2-love3. My i2c version is 2.8.7 and my lm_sensors version is also 2.8.7.

[EnigmaOne]

http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/download/download.html

Try this instead?

[cybertron]

Originally posted by chucksaysword2
I use lm_sensors with the ABIT NF7-S just fine. The modules I have loaded are :


i2c-nforce2
i2c-isa
eeprom
w83627hf
i2c-dev
i2c-proc


My kernel version is 2.6.8-rc2-love3. My i2c version is 2.8.7 and my lm_sensors version is also 2.8.7.

Hmm. You don't have the module loaded that was giving me problems (adm1021). I couldn't figure out any way to make lm_sensors not load it though because it seemed to think that it needed it to work at all.

EnigmaOne: Looks like that will be helpful if I can get it working. I'll check it out next time I get a chance. Thanks.

[EnigmaOne]

It's a good one--for me at least.
On VDT#1, I keep ksysguard open full-screen on the left monitor and xmbmon open full-screen on the right monitor.
Necessary stats (Vcore & Temps) are just a virtual desktop away.

You can customize things a bit by editing the xbmon.resources file in your /home/[username] directory. There's good documentation available from the program author.

Here's the contents of the one I'm currently running:

!
! XMBmon resource file for .../app-defaults, by YRS, 2002.01.18
!
XMBmon*translations: #override \
<Configure>: repaint_proc()\n\
<Expose>: repaint_proc()\n\
<BtnUp>: repaint_proc()\n\
<Key>Q: quit_proc()
! Add the followings to users default resources if one wishes
XMBmon*geometry: 1280x1024
XMBmon*font: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
XMBmon*count: 4
XMBmon*sec: 20
XMBmon*wsec: 1800
XMBmon*tmin: 10.0
XMBmon*tmax: 75.0
XMBmon*vmin: 1.50
XMBmon*vmax: 1.80
XMBmon*tick: 3
XMBmon*cltmb: blue
XMBmon*cltcpu: red
XMBmon*cltcs: cyan
XMBmon*clvc: green
XMBmon*cmtmb: \ MB
XMBmon*cmtcpu: CPU
XMBmon*cmtcs: NOTEMP
XMBmon*cmvc: Vc\
XMBmon*method:
XMBmon*smbdev: 0
XMBmon*fahrn: False
XMBmon*probe:
XMBmon*TyanTigerMP: False
XMBmon*label:
XMBmon*labelfont: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
XMBmon*labelcolor: black

[cybertron]

All right, config file editing!:D

It's too bad I'm going to be away from my computer this weekend so I won't get a chance to try it out until Monday.:rolleyes:

[cybertron]

It works great, thanks! The mobo temp it reports is almost identical to the ambient temp from my case's temp probe so I'm pretty sure it's working correctly. Now I want to get lm_sensors working even more so I can use gkrellm for the monitoring though:( Ah well, this will keep me happy for a while and then as always I'll start tweaking again.:)

[EnigmaOne]

Glad to hear it helped. :)