Re: GKrellM

[Jonathan Brandmeyer <jbrandmeyer@earthlink.net>]

> 
> On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 20:36 -0500,
> debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > I want to make my computer as quiet as possible and so I kitted it out 
> > with those Zalman copper heat-dispersers, one on the CPU and one on the 
> > video card, and I ditched the noisy fans.

> > Then I decided to keep an eye on the temp in the pc, just in case the 
> > zalman heat-dispersers can't cope and it all starts to superheat.
> > 
> > So my kernel's configured and in the gkrellm config I've got 4 
> > temperature sensors and I have no idea what is what (apart from the 
> > hard-drive):
> > 
> > w83627hf-1-0290/temp1 - 37.0C
> > w83627hf-1-0290/temp2 - 46.5C
> > w83627hf-1-0290/temp3 - 57.0C
> > hddtemp/hda - 39.0C

How did you get the hard drive temp?

> > can anyone tell me which is which?
> > 
> > How about a good idea of what to run to see if I can blast the temp up a 
> > bit? I just untarred a 1GB tar file onto the harddrive, but nothing 
> > changed temp at all. Although they do fluctuate by 0.5C, possibly randomly.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Adam

Run "sensors" from the lm-sensors package.  It prints out the
temperature values with labels in order.

HTH,
-Jonathan