fan speed, temp, etc... on a thinkpad?

Jesse Guardiani jesse at wingnet.net
Mon Nov 3 11:06:43 PST 2003


Eric Pogroski wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 10:42:05 -0500
> Jesse Guardiani <jesse at wingnet.net> wrote:
> 
>> Eric Pogroski wrote:
>> 
>> > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:36:39 -0400
>> > Jesse Guardiani <jesse at wingnet.net> wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> > Hi. Try xmbmon from ports/x11, seems to work (somewhat) on thinkpads
>> > (I use it on 2, a 390x and a 600x). It give's at least a good
>> > approximation of the temperature, does voltage correctly, but I
>> > can't get it to read the fans.
>> 
>> Hmmm, here is what I get from `mbmon -dA`, executed as root:

[...]

> try this:
> su root
> <password>
> chmod +s /usr/local/bin/mbmon
> chmod +s /usr/local/bin/xmbmon
> exit

[14:05]jesse at trevarthan:[~]# ls -al /usr/local/bin/mbmon
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  41948 Nov  3 10:31 /usr/local/bin/mbmon

Besides, I ran it as root the first time.

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