CentOS - Jul 2008 - looking for motherboard / temp / hdd monitor, other than lmsensors

Hi all

What other good temp / motherboard / fan speed / HDD / etc monitor can I 
use on CentOS 5.1 (or even 5.2 - still need to upgrade)? I know 
lmsensors works ok'ish, but it doesn't pickup my Gigabyte motherboard 
properly.

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On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 13:40 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> What other good temp / motherboard / fan speed / HDD / etc monitor can I 
> use on CentOS 5.1 (or even 5.2 - still need to upgrade)? I know 
> lmsensors works ok'ish, but it doesn't pickup my Gigabyte
motherboard
> properly.
I don't know if it's good or what you want, but I use gkrellm

$ rpm -qa|grep gkrel
gkrellm-2.2.7-0.el5.rf.i386

It's in the rpmforge repo.

It's highly configurable. I have a "minimalist" configuration.
I've
attached a snapshot.
> 
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William L. Maltby wrote on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:47:28 -0400:
> I don't know if it's good or what you want, but I use gkrellm
relies on lm_sensors according to the homepage. (and sys_fs, AFAIK 
lm_sensors picks up sys_fs if it's available.)

I'm having the same problems with lm_sensors with newer motherboards (ones 
from the last two years), some work, some don't. On some AMD motherboards 
it helps to "rmmod k8temp" to get a reading. On some it doesn't.
I have one Intel board with I think Intel 5000X where lm_sensors also 
fails with a message like "no sys_fs" or so, I don't really
remember.
Do others know any tricks to get the data nevertheless?
I think the kernel and lm_sensors on Centos 5 are simply too old for some 
chipsets. Also, there's sometimes a discrepancy between the support in the 
kernel and in lm_sensors.

Kai

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