Linux Hardware Monitor

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:05:49 Post Subject: Linux Hardware Monitor

I want to find somehting like mbm5 for Linux. I was having so much trouble with WinXP on my XP2800+ machine that I dumped it for Mandrake 10.

Installed all my drivers, gor Folding running, now I want to see my temps.

Anyone know a good one?

Thanks!

Bad Air

thePMG · Rated XXX Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Germany

You need to find an rpm for your distro that is called lm_sensors, it might even be on the mandrake disk.
EDIT: Found...http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/15/pakman/3697/com/Blindauer%20Emmanuel%20%3Cmanu_agat_net%3E.html Grab every thing related to lm_sensors, and install.

Install that, then, as ROOT, run
/usr/sbin/sensors-detect, it will ask you a few questions, and detect your hardware, and will want to write a config file when it's done, let it.

Now you need start the lm-sensors daemon, on my system it's like this:

/etc/init.d/lm_sensors start Yours could be a little different, just poke around a little, and you should be able to find it.

If it starts without errors, your good.

Next, your going to want to add this daemon to your default run level, so that it gets started when you boot. I'm sure that Mandrake has some kind of nice GUI to handle the system daemons.

Ok, all the back end stuff is done, now to pick a front end.

http://web.wt.net/~billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html GKRELLM More information than you probably ever need, this thing does it all.

http://ksensors.sourceforge.net/ KSENSORS Haven't tried this one yet, but it looks cool, and would fit in good if you are using KDE.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:39:23 Post Subject:

Thanks... I got through most of it with no errors... need to try again on the GKRELLM bit.

But, with LCD temp sensors anyway, I am not too concerned right now.