Hardware monitor needed
Alex Zbyslaw
xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Thu Jun 21 17:09:44 UTC 2007
Laszlo Nagy wrote:
>
>> Check out healthd or mbmon. One or other has worked OK for me on
>> other Asus boards, and both are in ports (sysutils/ I think).
>>
>> If you have ACPI and your board supports thermal zones, then you can
>> check those.
>> sysctl -a | egrep 'acpi.*therm'
>> or
>> sysctl -a | egrep 'acpi.*tz'
>>
>> one or other should be a good enough incantation. None of my ASUS
>> mobos do have thermal zones so I can't be sure -- it's much more
>> commonly supported in laptops.
>>
>> Or just
>>
>> sysctl -a | egrep acpi
>
> I do not have anything that looks like temperature. Is it still
> possible to use healthd or mbmon?
>
Yes. healthd and mbmon try to talk to the monitoring chip directly, so
they can work with or without thermal zones. The only way to know *if*
they work on your particular board is to try them :-( They don't take
long to compile.
>> PS Many disks which support SMART can display their apparent temp as
>> one of the SMART parameters (see sysutils/smartmontools). Not 100%
>> trustworthy, but better than nowt. I'd rather fry the processor than
>> a disk :-)
>
>
> I'm not affraid of that. I have gmirror-ed disks and they are much
> cheaper than the processor ( E6320 ).
It's not the cost of the disks that worries me, it's the cost of the
data! Yes, I mirror, and yes I back up to another server. But if one
disk in a server overheats, likelihood is that the others will too :-(
I just like low temperatures all round.
No idea re gnome-volume-manage; don't even know what it is. Sorry.
--Alex
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