Are you overclocking? If not, you should not need a better heat sink/fan, you probably have a bad physical mating of the heatsink to the CPU. Almost all processors come with a sufficient fan/heatsink for cooling. On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:59:04AM +0000, Jon Roland wrote: > Yes, I restored sensors by running sensors-detect. > > I doubt things have changed that much in going to FC4. If you could provide a > 2.6.5 solution I can probably use or adapt it. > > I am indeed working on a script that would extract the CPU temp from the output of > the sensors command and use it as a trigger. I was just hoping someone might have > already done something like that, preferably something a little more robust, and > that I could run in background like a watch xxx script. A cron job with only a > one-minute granularity does not seem to be fast enough for this problem, because > freezeup occurs in less than a minute once the processes begin that seem to cause it. > > Many of the respondents are also saying I need a better heatsink/fan. Funds for > that are low right now. > > Craig Sylla wrote: > > Unfortunately it varies from driver to driver. :/ > > > > You would need to look at the source for the driver in question to see > > exactly what it does. Most of them actually provide a fairly useful > > value in the sys entry. Also you had mentioned earlier that sensors > > had died, have you been able to get them working again? > > > > I am also unsure of exactly what the newer methods are for this, as > > I'm working with kernel 2.6.5, which is somewhat dated now. FC4 is > > running 2.6.12 iirc, I'd rather not give you info that is wrong and > > waste your time. > > > > One possibility - if the 'sensors' command and your sensors.conf file > > are good/working/right you could just grep out the line for the temp > > and parse that for your temperature and alarm status. The command > > uses the config file to do the conversions for you and knows how to > > handle each driver correctly. You can also set thresholds in the > > config file. > > > > Craig > > > > > > On 8/23/05, Jon Roland <jon.roland at the-spa.com> wrote: > > > >>This is a tantalizing suggestion, but it is insufficient information. Could you be > >>more specific, or point me to some documentation that would help me make it work? > >>Thanks. > >> > >>Craig Sylla wrote: > >> > >>>The 'raw' driver data comes from the sys file system. You could read > >>>the temp directly (it will require some math conversion but not much). > >>> Or just check the 'alarm' value for a pass-fail type test. > >> > >>-- > >> > >>---------------------------------------------------------------- > >>Starflight Corporation 7793 Burnet Road #37, Austin, TX 78757 > >>512/374-9585 www.the-spa.com/jon.roland/ jon.roland at the-spa.com > >>---------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > > > > > > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Starflight Corporation 7793 Burnet Road #37, Austin, TX 78757 > 512/374-9585 www.the-spa.com/jon.roland/ jon.roland at the-spa.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> > <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h9bn7rm/M=362131.6882499.7825260.1510227/D=groups/S=1705006580:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124906290/A=2889191/R=0/SIG=10r90krvo/*http://www.thebeehive.org > ">Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job) Welcome to the Sweet Life -?brought to you by One Economy</a>.</font> > --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GWLUG/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > GWLUG-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > -- Wayne Walker wwalker at bybent.com Do you use Linux?! http://www.bybent.com Get Counted! http://counter.li.org/ Perl - http://www.perl.org/ Perl User Groups - http://www.pm.org/ Jabber: wwalker at jabber.gnumber.com AIM: lwwalkerbybent IRC: wwalker on freenode.net
