Re: temperature

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:56:20 +0100, Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote:

> which package to use to see the hardware temperature on AMD FX(tm)-6100
> Six-Core Processor and GPU using  Debian Squeeze, Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64

"lm-sensors"? :-)

> I use 'sensors' (first I use 'sensors-detect' to detect it) and widgets
> on KDE Desktop, but there no information about CPU temperature and also
> no information about GPU temperature. I have the following card: GeForce
> with CUDA GTX 550Ti MSI 1GB 2xDVI & mHDMI (PCI-E) Cyclone II

I don't know if lm-sensors can read the temps for nvidia cards when using 
the closed source driver. Are you using nuvó or nvidia's own driver for 
your VGA card?

(btw, nvidia driver provides an utility -nvidia-settings- to read the 
card temps)

> I have a water cooling system.
> 
> I got:
> # sensors
> it8720-isa-0228

It seems that you have only loaded one kernel module (it87). Did 
"sensors-detect" suggest any additional modules to load?

(...)
> fan1:          0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM) 
> fan2:          0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM) 
> fan3:        587 RPM  (min =    0 RPM) 
> fan4:          0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM) 

These are the detected fan sensors. As you're using a water cooling system, 
having only one fan enabled can be right but does this match with your 
current chassis configuration?

> temp1:       +31.0°C  (low  = +127.0°C, high = +127.0°C) sensor = thermistor 
> temp2:       +27.0°C  (low  = +127.0°C, high = +127.0°C)  sensor = thermal diode
> temp3:       +27.0°C  (low  = +127.0°C, high = +60.0°C)  sensor = thermal diode

And here are the detected temps. I'm not familiar with AMD micros but temp1
can be for CPU, temp2 for the chipset and temp3 for the cabinet though they 
seem to be very low... Are these temps matching the BIOS values?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón