All, my apologies if I bother you with simple noob questions in this mail. On the other hand, if so they should be easy to answer :-) My mainboard is a Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3 which has a iTE IT8728 and core i5 2500T (sandy bridge). Unfortunately this board is not (yet :-)) on the list yet: http://lm-sensors.org/wiki/Configurations/Gigabyte So I'm trying to understand and optimize the output of sensors using a file in /etc/sensors.d/ My questions: 1. coretemp outputs 5 temperatures. The last 4 are the cores, but what is the value of the first one? (my guess: the temperature of the highest core) 2. coretemp temperatures have (according to sensors -u) a _max, _crit and _crit_alarm. How are these values determined? Does lm_sensors have a database of existing cpu's and their max temperature specifications? 3. (follow-up on Q2) what is the difference between _max and _crit? What happens when each of them is reached? What is the role of _crit_alarm and how will the alarm be noticed? 4. (follow-up on Q3) how can I change the values for _max and _crit? I tried 'set temp1_max 60' but that doesn't work. (sensors -s complains) 5. what is the difference between fan1_alarm and fan1_beep? 6. (follow-up on Q5) how do I set fan1_alarm? set fan1_alarm 1 doesn't work. (sensors -s complains) 7. it8728 reports 3 different temps. When CPU is at full load, one of them increases, but the value is much lower than the one reported by coretemp (about 10 degrees lower). sensors outputs that it is Intel PECI. According to the explanation on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_Environment_Control_Interface) the temperature should be negative and increase towards 0 when cpu temperature rises. Why does sensors show different values? 8. it8728 shows another two temps. Likely one case temp and the other one the south bridge? How can I find out? 9. (from FAQ) "Do you have a database of sensors.conf entries for specific boards? No. Good idea though. If you would like to set one up on your website send us mail and we will set up a link to it." Why hasn't this been setup yet? Some sort of a database is at the wiki, but doesn't contain many boards. Is any help still appreciated? Is it just a table of manufacturer, type, sensors.conf file? (and maybe some user registrations and comments by registered users?) Thanks in advance for your help! Martin P.S. if answers can be found somewhere.. please let me know where to find the documentation! _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
