gkrellm

[antitrustworthy]

Hey I have been noticing that many people can monitor the temperature of their hardware using gkrellm. Mine doesnt seem to have that feature available. I love the prog and have it up constantly, but having the temp monitor would be great. My gkrellm is version 1.0.7. It is the version that came with Mandrake 8. Do I need to d/l a newer version (if there is one) or is there something I can d/l to add that feature? Thanks for the help.

[antitrustworthy]

I forgot... this may be helpful. I have an Asus A7V mobo which has hardware monitoring builtin. Just thought that somebody may want to know, so there it is.

[TheGimp]

gkrellm 1.2.1 is out
there should be mandrake rpms on rpmfind.net

check the gkrellm site (http://web.wt.net/~billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html) for more info and plugins :)

[antitrustworthy]

I checked that link you gave and it doesnt have a downloadable version of gkrellm on it anywhere I could find. The main site gkrellm.net is down and rpmfind.net didnt have the new version yet. Sooooo, do you have any idea where I can download it? I hate to be a burden, but Ive done several google searches with no luck. Thanks.

[MrNewbie]

There's gkrellm 1.2.1 rpms at http://www.gkrellm.net

[r0nster]

Originally posted by antitrustworthy:
<STRONG>Hey I have been noticing that many people can monitor the temperature of their hardware using gkrellm. Mine doesnt seem to have that feature available. I love the prog and have it up constantly, but having the temp monitor would be great. My gkrellm is version 1.0.7. It is the version that came with Mandrake 8. Do I need to d/l a newer version (if there is one) or is there something I can d/l to add that feature? Thanks for the help.</STRONG>
For the temps, voltages to show up, you need to have lm_sensors installed in your system. Its fairly complicated to setup initially. After lm_sensors is installed and running, you can go into the gkrellm configuration and see the new features once you open the "builtins" section.
Grab the lm_sensors 2.5.5 tarball and while its downloading, you may need to recompile the kernel and enable i2c support as lm_sensors depends on it.
I can guide you through the process of setting lm_sensors up if you wish but I'll save that for a different thread as this one deals with gkrellm :)

[antitrustworthy]

hey R0nster, I downloaded the rpm for lm_sensors 2.5.5-3. I checked my kernel config and Ive already got i2c in the kernel. So now how do I get the thing to work in gkrellm? Thanks for the help.

[r0nster]

Originally posted by antitrustworthy:
<STRONG>hey R0nster, I downloaded the rpm for lm_sensors 2.5.5-3. I checked my kernel config and Ive already got i2c in the kernel. So now how do I get the thing to work in gkrellm? Thanks for the help.</STRONG>

This will be long so bear with me :)
I don't know about the rpm version as I only deal with the tarball but do a locate sensors and see where the sensors files are kept, or query the rpm package and check where its files are kept.
Find the nifty perl script called "sensors-detect". This probes your hardware to see what devices it can find and it tells you which modules you need to load. (you need perl 5.0 loaded on your system to run that script).
It should indicate the modules needed. I have an Abit KT7 and it uses the
i2c-core
i2c-isa
via686a
sensors modules.
Run depmod -a.
Now, edit your rc.local script and put lines
for modprobe for the modules you need (may be different than mine system)
/sbin/modprobe &lt;name of module&gt;

Either manually load the modules you need or reboot. Your sensors.conf is in /etc. Give it a look-over as well as the sensors manual page.
Issue sensors -s and then issue sensors (the temps will probably read a bit high).