How to find temperature checker

[dasdingo]

Dear sirs,

I need to know how to find out what is my computers current temperature. I would like to see systems current temperature while I have logged in to my Linux OS, Ubuntu.

Do I need some kind of software to see it?

Yours Sincerely,

DasDingo!!

[happybunny]

Right click on your "task bar" at the top (the one with the clock on it) and "Add to Panel" might have a CPU temperature gauge for you.

[ph34r]

You'll want lmsensors to be installed/setup and hten you'll want something like gkrellm to view the data.

[JayMan8081]

You'll probably want to look into lm-sensors or something similar. Do a search in Synaptic, only by name, for sensor and see what comes up. You'll most likely have to do some specific configuration for your system.

Edit: ph34r beat me to it!

[dasdingo]

Right click on your "task bar" at the top (the one with the clock on it) and "Add to Panel" might have a CPU temperature gauge for you.

Didn't find CPU temperature gauge but I found "Wanda the fish" and some other usefull things, thanks.

[dasdingo]

I had that temperature teller when I had Windows. I think it was in my geforce driver CD or somewhere.

[ladoga]

Moikka.

It could be that your mobo has good ACPI compliance and following works:
$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature
temperature: 48 C
I have an IBM thinkpad so:
$ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
temperatures: 48 42 46 41 35 -128 30 -12
...gives some more readings. (cpu, graphics chip, hdd and several mainboard sensors.)

If ACPI doesn't see your temperatures, then you have to use some external program for it. mbmon is quite good one (apt-cache show mbmon), some people use lm_sensors like mentioned above. System monitors like torsmo, conky,gkrellm and so forth can use this info to display it on your desktop.

Maybe adesklets has something like it too (and might fit better in gnome desktop). You can check it here http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/

[dasdingo]

Moikka.

It could be that your mobo has good ACPI compliance and following works:
$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature
temperature: 48 C
I have an IBM thinkpad so:
$ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
temperatures: 48 42 46 41 35 -128 30 -12
...gives some more readings. (cpu, graphics chip, hdd and several mainboard sensors.)

If ACPI doesn't see your temperatures, then you have to use some external program for it. mbmon is quite good one (apt-cache show mbmon), some people use lm_sensors like mentioned above. System monitors like torsmo, conky,gkrellm and so forth can use this info to display it on your desktop.

Maybe adesklets has something like it too (and might fit better in gnome desktop). You can check it here http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/


Kiitti!

Now I'll go to sleep but I'll check that site tomorrow and try to do these things.

[je_fro]

Check out lm-sensors...it's easy to install and there's a script you can run called "sensors-detect" that will probe for all the sensor modules you need to load. But, the easiest thing to do is to fire up gkrellm and see if it detects your sensors. (right-click, configure, sensors...)