Hi, Rudolf, I have tried to follow your instructions but since I am quite a linux novice I have some problems as indicated below. Rudolf Marek wrote: > Hello Ulrich, > >> I have an ASUS P5B-VM with an E6600 and would like to monitor the CPU >> temperatures. Sensors-detect only finds an LM78 chip which has only one >> temparature sensor. The temperature shown by sensors is obviously the >> Mobo-temperature (same as in BIOS). > > > The LM-78 is a misdetection. Please try latest sensors-detect (check > the devices page on our web) > > I bet you have W83627DHG, you will need a patch for this chip. Here is > preliminary patch: > > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20060906/b139bc4d/attachment-0001.obj > > > I have downloaded this patch. I understand that this is a C program. But I don't know where to put it and what to do with it. Could you please give me guidance? > >> I have read that Conroes possess integrated >> read out directly from CPU registers. >> a) Is this correct? > > > Yes > >> b) Is this implemented in lm-sensors? > > > Yes but not yet in kernel. You will need latest SVN snapshot of > lm-sensors (make user_install) I downloaded the last SVN (2006/11/18), extracted, make user, make user_install. So far everything worked fine. Then I ran sensors-detect. It was revision 1.413 (2006/01/19) which I suspect not being the most recent one. It again only found the LM78 (because of the missing patches?). Do I have to uninstall the previous version of lm-sensors before installing the new version? > and also this set of patches: > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2006-October/018100.html > > (some of the patch files are posted TWICE, please use the latest > version - click on mail thread to check what is latest) > I think you mean this patch: http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20061017/759c6d1b/attachment-0001.bin The same problem for me as before: I downloaded the file, recognized it as a C program, but don't know how to proceed. >> c) If yes, what do I have to do to get sensors show the CPU >> temperatures of the >> two cores? > > > CHeck above. You will have more than one sensor ;) > >> Thank you for reply. If you need further info, please let me know. > > > Please let me know if it works OK, and David too. > > Regards > Rudolf > > Some information on my system in case it meght help: ASUS P5B-VM E6600 2 GB DDR2-667 CL4 SUSE 10.1 Kernel 2.6.16.21-0.25-smp I appreciate your help. Thank you. Uli
