Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CPU temperature monitoring?

2012-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 May 2012 01:59:40 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: The k10temp kernel module loads automatically at boot with no errors, so I just hope something (somewhere) is taking care of this stuff automatically. But I'm only hoping, not knowing. Any ideas how to find out for sure?

[gentoo-user] [OT] CPU temperature monitoring?

2012-05-23 Thread walt
I bought this desktop 4-core machine during the coolest part of the year and until very recently I could barely hear the CPU fan except for about one second during power-up when the fan spins way up and then quickly slows down. Now it's hotter than Hades here and I'm very much aware of the fan

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CPU temperature monitoring?

2012-05-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2012, 16:37:01 schrieb walt: I bought this desktop 4-core machine during the coolest part of the year and until very recently I could barely hear the CPU fan except for about one second during power-up when the fan spins way up and then quickly slows down. Now it's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CPU temperature monitoring?

2012-05-23 Thread Alex Schuster
walt writes: Now it's hotter than Hades here and I'm very much aware of the fan noise, but I can't tell if the fan is beginning to fail (the noise sounds a bit harsh to me) or something is merely controlling the speed appropriately. The machines BIOS has no settings whatever concerning the