Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-06-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, # Generated by sensors-detect on Fri Jun 4 09:09:42 2010 # Chip drivers it87 That's what this 8.04 machine uses too, so it looks like mine will stop working when I upgrade. When I run the box in XP mode, speedfan picks up four or more temperatures from different chips. So I

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Merchant
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 09:36 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, # Generated by sensors-detect on Fri Jun 4 09:09:42 2010 # Chip drivers it87 That's what this 8.04 machine uses too, so it looks like mine will stop working when I upgrade. When I run the box in XP mode, speedfan

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-06-21 Thread Peter Merchant
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:34 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, et...@peterm-desktop:~$ sensors acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +41.0°C (crit = +70.0°C) pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ So I don't seem to have all the controllable devices

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Merchant
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 09:19 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 08:57 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote: 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

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-06-04 Thread Peter Merchant
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 08:57 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote: 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.

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-06-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, et...@peterm-desktop:~$ sensors acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +41.0°C (crit = +70.0°C) pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ So I don't seem to have all the controllable devices that you found. I did run sensors-detect, but haven't

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Merchant
While I had the machine stopped a moment ago, I did give the fans and heatsink a dusting out, but no noticeable effect. including the PSU fan ? Think I'll live with it. Can't justify replacing the PSU with one from QuietPC at the moment. I can understand that, they're not

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-06-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, Hope that you had a good night last night. Well, _Shaun of the Dead_ was on the box. The C4L + pub meet's tonight, Wednesday. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Merchant
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)

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-05-31 Thread Simon O'Riordan
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 08:57 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote: Thanks to everyone for their input. I looked at the reference above to ubuntumanual, which starts with pwmconfig. The results of that are: /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable sensor modules installed

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-05-31 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 31/05/10 09:13, Simon O'Riordan wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 08:57 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote: Thanks to everyone for their input. I looked at the reference above to ubuntumanual, which starts with pwmconfig. The results of that are: /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-05-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/127/how-to-control-fan-speed-lm-sensors-in-ubuntu Thanks to everyone for their input. I looked at the reference above to ubuntumanual, which starts with pwmconfig. I think it says to gets sensors(1) working first. Although I'm not sure the

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-05-31 Thread Peter Merchant
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 09:57 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote: hey Peter, maybe you could find a manufacturer's BIOS upgrade for the box? I mean short of wirecutters. Or perhaps a good clean would take some of the load off the fan because temperatures in the core would be lower/fan would meet

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-05-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
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

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-05-29 Thread Peter Merchant
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)

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-05-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, I don't know about Conky, but in the past I'm used sensors(1) from the lm-sensors package. Apt-get cannot find lm-sensors. That's odd. It seems to be available. http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=lm-sensors Does dpkg -l '*sens*' list it? Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-05-29 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:17 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: dpkg -l '*sens*' pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ dpkg -l '*sens*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)

Re: [Dorset] Fan speed control

2010-05-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:17 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: dpkg -l '*sens*' pet...@peterm-desktop:~$ dpkg -l '*sens*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required