Re: Temperature Monitor

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Patrick" == Patrick Lane <patrick.m.lane@csun.edu> writes:

    Patrick> Is there any kind of temperature monitor utility? I'm
    Patrick> running a compaq laptop and would love to be able to
    Patrick> monitor it. I'm being pretty anal about my system temp
    Patrick> after accidentally leaving my laptop on and putting it
    Patrick> back in the bag. Two hours later the battery had no juice
    Patrick> and I had one hell of a hot laptop =(

~$ dpkg -l '*sensor*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  ksensors       0.5-8          lm-sensors frontend for KDE
pn  libsensors-dev <none>         (no description available)
un  libsensors0    <none>         (no description available)
ii  libsensors1    2.6.3-5        Library to read temperature/voltage/fan sens
ii  lm-sensors     2.6.3-5        Utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan se
ii  lm-sensors-2.4 2.6.3-1+10.00. Kernel drivers to read temperature/voltage/f
un  lm-sensors-mod <none>         (no description available)
ii  lm-sensors-sou 2.6.3-5        Kernel drivers to read temperature/voltage/f
ii  sensor-sweep-a 0.20.0-2       GNOME applet displaying system's health stat
pn  sensord        <none>         (no description available)
ii  wmsensors      1.0.4-3        WindowMaker dock applet for lmsensors

These work pretty well if you have a supported temp. sensor (i2c based
in my desktop). Will any of it work on your laptop? I don't know.

Cheers!
Shyamal