hardware monitor apps

The package sensors provides the sensors-applet.
After the installation, you may have to restart
your computer, or just gnome.
Then you can add the applet to one panel by
right clicking on a panel -> "Add to panel...".
Select "Hardware Sensors Monitor" and the important
information about temperatures is shown.
See Also:
http://sensors-applet.sourceforge.net/

thank you jonas lieb for your help however I did download the sensors-applet and it did download, however it is not in the application's menu do I have to use the command line? all of the apps for monitoring your cpu-temp-volts that I downloaded are nowhere to be found on my computer, this is a problem for me because I have high end computer componets I do need to moitor what is going on inside please help me solve this problem. I'am currently running ubuntu 8.10 thank you

Hi,
afaik you have to 'introduce the hardware' to lm-sensors by opening a terminal and answer many questions.
Process will start when you type:
sensors

Please note the documentation
http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki

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Apps for monitoring hardware with a GUI are usually in system administration menu.

Please also check system administration -> services if hardware monitoring (lm-sensors) is activated.

Hi Gents, I have just been through the same process....

ASUS P5Q MB, c2de8400, Nvidia GT8800 Ubuntu 8.10 Kernel 2.6.27-14-generic

Used Synaptic to install lm-sensors, hddtemp and sensors-applet.

In theory, lm-sensors could be activated by
1. opening a terminal and running
$ sudo sensors-detect
& answering YES/pressing enter to all of the questions
2. rebooting (so modified /etc/modules was loaded)
3. adding "Hardware Sensors Monitor" to the overhead panel

result was display of CPU temps, Harddisk temp & GPU temp.

Right clicking on display & selecting preferences, tab sensors & expanding libsensors showed only CPU temps available

opening a terminal and typing sensors also only showed
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +47.0°C (high = +78.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0001
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 1: +43.0°C (high = +78.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

ALSO, during sensors-detect, there was a 'no driver for Analog Devices ADT7473 yet' reported.

So far, not v. good.

To cut a long story short, the solution is

1. get the updated version of sensors-detect here :
http://www.lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk/prog/detect/sensors-detect
- I just cut & pasted the code into gedit after entering
$ sudo gedit /usr/sbin/sensors-detect2
on the command line, then
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/sbin/sensors-detect2

2. run the updated version of sensors-detect
$ sudo sensors-detect2
and go through the YES/pressing enter to all of the questions bit
This version of sensors-detect is not Ubuntu-compliant, and wants to write to /etc/sysconfig/lm-sensors - but won't do so because the path doesn't exist (& no error messages btw). Doesn't matter, because on the screen output is the important bit
#----cut here----
# Chip drivers
modprobe adt7473
modprobe coretemp
modprobe w83627ehf
/usr/bin/sensors -s
#----cut here----

*** this is the list of modules needed in /etc/modules for lm-sensors to run

3. edit /etc/modules and cut & paste the module names associated with each modprobe line above into it
$sudo gedit /etc/modules
- in my version, it now looks like this :
** first part of file excluded **
# Generated by sensors-detect on Sat Mar 28 09:53:28 2009
# I2C adapter drivers
# modprobe unknown adapter NVIDIA i2c adapter
# modprobe unknown adapter NVIDIA i2c adapter
# modprobe unknown adapter NVIDIA i2c adapter
# Chip drivers
# no driver for Analog Devices ADT7473 yet
# Chip drivers
adt7473
coretemp
w83627ehf force_id=0x8860

** for each of the modprobe lines from step 2, I put in the module name
** for the Asus P5Q mb, the 'w83627ehf force_id=0x8860' module entry enables all of the mobo sensors - see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.sensors/17253

4. another reboot (sounds like m$, never mind) because I'm too lazy to run modprobe although I know I should to check for mod conflicts, but I built the kernel with minimum modules
...and now in a terminal
$ sensors
reports all of the mobo monitors,
...and right click on Hardware Sensors Monitor/properties/tab sensors/expand libsensors shows all of the mobo monitors - temps, fanrpms, voltages

YIPPEE

Cheers & Beers
Steve