How to Use Lm-Sensors?
I Wanted to Install a Package to Monitor the Temperature of My Cpu Called Lm-Sensors. According to Synaptic, It's Already Installed. Can Someone Give Me Some...
I wanted to install a package to monitor the temperature of my CPU called lm-sensors.
According to Synaptic, it's already installed.
Can someone give me some simple step-by-step instructions on how I can actually run it from the command line or otherwise?
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Once lm-sensors is installed you need to reach for your terminal:
type
sudo sensors-detect
just press ENTER for everything it suggests (shown in Uppercase)
At the end it will ask you whether to add what it finds to /etc/modules. If you are happy with the findings type "yes".
More information about lm-sensors and how to tailor it for your system can be found on the lm-sensors installation wiki page
Typing
sensors
will display the values for the sensors detected previously.
e.g.
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +55.0°C (crit = +90.0°C)
Must Read
lm-sensors
is a set of tools to control and view sensors that may be present on your hardware. Included are several applications that run from the command line:
- sensors: shows the current readings of all sensor chips.
- sensord: daemon to periodically log sensor readings to syslog
- fancontrol: calculates fan speeds from temperatures and sets the corresponding PWM outputs
- pwmconfig: tests the PWM outputs of sensors and configures fancontrol
- and more (see lm-sensors documentation for details)
To run these programs open a terminal and type the name of the application (including optional parameters, see manpages for details). This will give an output similar as shown here for sensors:
~$ sensors
k8temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Core0 Temp: +30.0°C
Core0 Temp: +30.0°C
Core1 Temp: +29.0°C
Core1 Temp: +36.0°C
it8718-isa-0228
Adapter: ISA adapter
[...] # shortened
Configuration of lm-sensors is done by configuration files in /etc/sensors3.conf and in /etc/sensors.conf (for details see manpage for sensors.conf).
