I'm not even going to attempt to answer any of the rest of it but for an explanation of fan monitors and why anything below 2600 is 0 see doc/fan-divisors. Brian Papantonio wrote: > Also, since sensors.conf is useless, I suppose the > answer to this question is "You can't" also: At fan > speed set to lowest, fan2 (the only fan showing > anything) is 0. At max it shows: > > [root at localhost as99127f-i2c-0-2d]# cat < fan2 > 3000 5487 > > Anything below ~2600rpm shows 0 (when it does show a > value, it is exactly what the mobo would report in the > BIOS's hardware monitor). If this cannot be fixed, no > biggie. The processor temperature is my main concern, > as I generally do NOT have any computer monitor hooked > up to the video card (I may even remove that), so I > have to rely on this program to report the temperature > to me. >