With best regards Tomas Larsson TL Engineering & Consultants (TLEC) Engelbrektsgatan 121 SE 50639 Borås Sweden +46 (0)739-932673 tomas@xxxxxxx www.tlec.se > -----Original Message----- > From: Guenter Roeck [mailto:linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 11:20 PM > To: Tomas Larsson > Cc: 'Jean Delvare'; lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Whats wrong with LM-Sensors > > On 09/08/2013 01:01 PM, Tomas Larsson wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Jean Delvare [mailto:khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > >> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 9:10 PM > >> To: Guenter Roeck > >> Cc: Tomas Larsson; lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> Subject: Re: Whats wrong with LM-Sensors > >> > >> On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 11:58:39 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >>> Different driver. Centos 6.4 uses the coretemp driver which gets the > >>> temperature from the CPU directly. Unfortunately, Centos 6.4 is > >>> quite old when it comes to kernel version, and so is its coretemp driver. > >>> The displayed temperatures in your version are all wrong; the > >>> maximum > >> temperature for Atom 330 is 125 degrees C, not 90 degrees C. > >>> You'll have to add 35 degrees C to the displayed temperature. > >>> > >>> You could either update the coretemp driver to a later version to > >>> fix this, or add the offset to /etc/sensors3.conf. > >>> > >>> Note that CPU temperatures are notoriously unreliable. > >> > >> "Inaccurate in the low temperature range" is a better way to describe > >> the situation IMHO. The coretemp values are reliably telling the user > >> when the temperature gets too close to the high limit. > >> > >> -- > >> Jean Delvare > > > > Well, I'm aware of that, what I want to know is when the fan fails, > > these 40mm fans are not that reliable, unfortunately. > > Not sure if you can use the cpu temperature to predict if the fans are working > or not. The CPU can get pretty hot under load, even with the fans working. > > Your initial e-mail showed the fan speeds as 0. Are they broken or turned off > or not connected to the fan speed sensors ? > > Guenter Haven't got a clue why it says that they are 0, they definitely work now (changed the fans today), They are 3-pins and connected to the correct header. On the Centos 6 mashine, I obviously don't get any fan-speed though. Tomas Larsson _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
