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Software to monitor temperatures

Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:01 pm
by Tasurinchi
Hi Thinkpadders

I've just changed the thermal paste of the fan in my T43p. I would like to know which software can be recommended to undervolt the CPU and to monitor the temperatures. I'm using currently Ubuntu 10.10.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Software to monitor temperatures

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 6:33 am
by moronoxyd
If you just want to check the temperatures every once in a while a

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more /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
(or thereabouts) should do the trick.

If you want to monitor the temperature constantly I would suggest conky, which needs some work to set up, or any of the panel applets.

Re: Software to monitor temperatures

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:03 am
by Tasurinchi
Thanks moronoxyd! I'll try them tonight. First the console option, I think I did a quick try to conky before but found it no so intuitive (Was too lazy to learn how to deal with it).

Regards

T.

Re: Software to monitor temperatures

Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:58 am
by jaspen-meyer
can use

acpi -V

from the command line.

install it with
sudo apt-get install acpi

Re: Software to monitor temperatures

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:36 am
by solidstate
This is kind of cool:

http://sensors-applet.sourceforge.net/

It is a task bar where you can select which temps you want to display. It also shows fan speed.

Re: Software to monitor temperatures

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 11:56 am
by Tasurinchi
Cool! Will try as soon as I can, thanks for sharing!