show harddisk and cpu temperature with Ubuntu
Friday, 31 October 2008
To configure a Ubuntu (Intrepid) to show sensor data in desktop panel, simply install sensors.
With my new mainboard and ICH10 chiptset, i haven’t got access to hard disk and cpu temperatures,
i only got
“Sensors type ACPI zones”
apt-get install xfce4-sensors-plugin sensord i2c-tools
apt-get install xsensors
After that run as root:
sudo sensors-detect
It added “coretemp” to /etc/modules.
Additionally you need to let sensors plugin get access to hddtemp to read harddisk temperatures as user:
chmod u+s /usr/sbin/hddtemp
Then you need reboot your system.
Voila! CPU and hard disk temperatures are displayed.
Very nice is, that i can set Min/Max for the color display.
The ACPI thing didn’t work, but that’s okay for the moment.
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steven | Sunday, 8 November 2009 at 13:57 UTC
I can’t get “show” enabled?
i’m running ubuntu (gnome)
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moojix | Sunday, 8 November 2009 at 18:20 UTC
i’m running the xfce version http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-sensors-plugin and use not gnome, so cannot help (also too few details).
maybe you can check your system log for any error message or
check https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ for help.