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I got the lm-sensors working awhile back. gkrellm will interface with lm-sensors automatically after you get lm-senosrs running. Pretty kewl.

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OOooo pretty
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OOooo pretty
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Nice work hyperspace!

A few hints & tips:

The command "sensors" will give you a written text output from the sensors, essentially the same as what you see in gkrelllm. That in itself isn't all that remarkable but combined with the command "watch" it is! Not many people know this command so write "watch sensors" in a command line window.

Neat, isn't it? It updates automatically every two seconds. If you want to change that time then use "-n <secs>" ro change that time.

Second, many modern harddrives have built in heat sensors. Linux can read those as well! I use an application called hddtemp and I use it like this:

[davidt@loki]:~$ hddtemp /dev/hda
/dev/hda: ST340014A: 39 C

Not bad, eh? There is also a gkrellm plugin for this as well. Go here for the hddtemp webpage...

http://coredump.free.fr/linux/hddtemp.php

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Great Stuff!
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I had no luck getting sensors working when I had linux on my bp6. When I get one of my bp6s back from repair I think I'll go the linux route again, and this time I'll remember to post here for help!
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w00t one more thing to run in the background
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which OS is there? looks really nice!
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BCN wrote:which OS is there? looks really nice!
ManDrakeLinux 10.0 and KDE 3.2 for the window manager.
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