On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:31 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> > First, to measure the speed I installed Conky.  Problem 1: I cannot
> > figure out how to display the fan speed, but I have got the acpi
> > temperature showing. 
> 
> I don't know about Conky, but in the past I'm used sensors(1) from the
> lm-sensors package.  It's old and not properly configured on this
> machine, but it tries to show things like
> 
>     it87-isa-0290
>     Adapter: ISA adapter
>     VCore 1:     +1.58 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
>     VCore 2:     +2.51 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
>     +3.3V:       +3.23 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +4.08 V)
>     +5V:         +3.47 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +6.85 V)
>     +12V:        +5.38 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max = +16.32 V)
>     -12V:       -15.21 V  (min = -27.36 V, max =  +3.93 V)
>     -5V:         -7.27 V  (min = -13.64 V, max =  +4.03 V)
>     Stdby:       +2.69 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +6.85 V)
>     VBat:        +3.18 V
>     fan1:       3924 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 8)
>     fan2:          0 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 8)
>     M/B Temp:    +40.0°C  (low  = +127.0°C, high = +75.0°C)  sensor = 
> transistor
>     CPU Temp:    +41.0°C  (low  = +127.0°C, high = +75.0°C)  sensor = 
> transistor
>     Temp3:       +35.0°C  (low  = +127.0°C, high = +75.0°C)  sensor = 
> transistor
> 
> Once lm-sensors is thrown into Google I get search results including
> 
>     
> http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/127/how-to-control-fan-speed-lm-sensors-in-ubuntu
>     http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fan_Speed_Control
> 
> and others.  Perhaps that'll help.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralph.
> 
> 
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Apt-get cannot find lm-sensors.

And from that first link pwmconfig gives the result:
/usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed

There seems to be plenty of files in ..... / docs and in /lib/dpkg/info
But it doesn't seem to work.

P.


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