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[raymond house]

Hi Bob, thanks for the tip, I went through synaptic and got the sensor
applet and it works fine.  Ray

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

> On my system I run a temperature panel applet, "Computer Temperature
> Monitor".
>
> I don't remember what package it came in, either "computertemp" or
> "sensors-applet".  I used Synaptic to install them.
>
> Once installed, right-click on the top panel, select "Add to panel", and
> pick "Computer Temperature Monitor".
>
> The properties of "Computer Temperature Monitor" allows me to monitor
> one of four different sensors.  I can "Add to Panel" multiple times to
> monitor multiple sensors.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> --Bob.
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> Joel Goguen wrote:
> > Sorry for the delay Raymond.  I'm no expert with ACPI, but that
> > suggests to me that your motherboard doesn't have sensors for CPU
> > temperature.  Perhaps someone else can chime in and correct me and/or
> > offer another way to get CPU temperature?
> >
> > 2010/1/14 raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> raymond at raymond-desktop:~$ acpi -V
> >> Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 3
> >> Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 3
> >> raymond at raymond-desktop:~$ "apci -V"
> >>
> >> This is what I get Joel.
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> >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Joel Goguen <jgoguen at jgoguen.ca>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Do you have any lines that begin with "Thermal"?  Can you copy/paste
> >>> the whole output of "acpi -V" exactly as it appears in your terminal?
> >>>
> >>> 2010/1/14 raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>>> Ok Joel, that works! here is what I get, cooling 0: processor 0 of 3
> and
> >>>> cooling 1 : processor 0 of 3. ? I guess temps are ok?  Ray
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Joel Goguen <jgoguen at jgoguen.ca>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi Raymond,
> >>>>> Try the command "acpi -V" (without the quotes) instead.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 2010-01-14, at 7:31, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Daniel, it says no command found when I type it as you say,  Ray
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Daniel Robitaille
> >>>>> <robitaille at gmail.com>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Did you do "apci -V" or "apci-V"?  It should be the former, with a
> >>>>>> space after apci and before the -V
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:05 AM, raymond house <
> raymondh40 at gmail.com>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Hi Andrew and Joel, I tried what you suggested and that worked ok
> >>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>> acpi
> >>>>>>> was downloaded, but when I do apci-V it says command not found.
> >>>>>>> Still
> >>>>>>> cant
> >>>>>>> get any temperatures.  Ray
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Andrew Mathenge
> >>>>>>> <mathenge at gmail.com>
> >>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Quite right Joel.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks for the correction.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Andrew.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Joel Goguen <jgoguen at jgoguen.ca>
> >>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Before anyone comes asking why that failed, the command should
> >>>>>>>>> actually be "sudo apt-get install acpi" (without the quotes).
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> 2010/1/13 Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Hello Raymond,
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Have you tried the utility called "acpi?"  If you're looking for
> >>>>>>>>>> thermal
> >>>>>>>>>> information on boot, that might not be meaningful. However, if
> >>>>>>>>>> you'd
> >>>>>>>>>> like to
> >>>>>>>>>> find out what the temperature is after the system has been
> >>>>>>>>>> running
> >>>>>>>>>> for
> >>>>>>>>>> a
> >>>>>>>>>> while, you can try this utility.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Type:
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> acpi -V
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> If you don't have "acpi" installed, in Ubuntu,  you can install
> >>>>>>>>>> it
> >>>>>>>>>> by
> >>>>>>>>>> typing:
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> sudo apt-get acpi
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> acpi is an acronym for Advanced Configuration Power Interface.
> >>>>>>>>>> Most
> >>>>>>>>>> computers would support this. From ACPI you can get laptop
> >>>>>>>>>> battery
> >>>>>>>>>> information as well as CPU statistics.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Hopefully this was helpful.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Good luck!
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Andrew.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 3:07 PM, raymond house
> >>>>>>>>>> <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
> >>>>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Hello all,  How do I get into BIOS? I want to check
> >>>>>>>>>>> temperatures
> >>>>>>>>>>> of
> >>>>>>>>>>> CPU,
> >>>>>>>>>>> chassis etc.. as Alfred suggested, but I dont have a clue where
> >>>>>>>>>>> to
> >>>>>>>>>>> start.
> >>>>>>>>>>> thanks for your help,   Ray
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