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December 21st, 2012 05:00
lm-sensors needs coretemp kernel module or can we get a better temperature tool please
I'm seeing some freezes that I thought might be overheating(No evidence, still looking), so needed the hardware sensors active. I installed xsensors and psensors, but didn't get the degree by degree detail until I ran sensors-detect which told me:
Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done.
Just press ENTER to continue:
Driver `coretemp':
* Chip `Intel digital thermal sensor' (confidence: 9)
To load everything that is needed, add this to /etc/modules:
#----cut here----
# Chip drivers
coretemp
#----cut here----
If you have some drivers built into your kernel, the list above will
contain too many modules. Skip the appropriate ones!
Do you want to add these lines automatically to /etc/modules? (yes/NO)yes
Successful!
Monitoring programs won't work until the needed modules are
loaded. You may want to run 'service module-init-tools start'
to load them.
I ignored the advice and modprobed coretemp which lets me see that my core 0 is peaking at 95C with two renders and video, which I guess is ok, I may try stressing it more to make sure it caps, but that's really more than a normal load anyway.
Can that be added to the default build? Can we also get whatever tool Intel would like to give us for seeing the speed and temp of each core added in the Dell PPA?
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matthewbpt
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April 5th, 2013 04:00
You can check the temperature without any extra modules loaded. Install the 'acpi' package and run command:
acpi -t
This will output your core temperature. You can see some other information too using
acpi -V