Monitoring CPU temperature on Dell Inspiron 8600
Posted by Stuart Herbert @ 3:41 PM, Sun 23 Jul 06
Filed under: Dell Inspiron 8600
2 Comments
I’ve just added a copy of the gi8k Gnome applet to my desktop overlay. This handy little applet sits in your Gnome panel, and displays the current temperature of the CPU. It can also display fan speed, and can be used to make the fans kick in sooner than the BIOS would.
All you need to do is to make sure that you have the i8k module compiled for your kernel.
Now, if only I could get suspend-to-RAM working on this machine …
2 Comments
July 23rd, 2006 at 11:43 pm
If you want an applet for monitoring your CPU temp / Fan speed that is more GNOME-ey than gi8k try sensors-applet (shameless plug).
emerge sensors-applet (I recommend using the latest version 1.7.4 (is in portage) as it contains a many number of bug fixes compared to older versions).
July 24th, 2006 at 7:36 am
Hi Alex,
I think I’ll do exactly that!
Best regards,
Stu
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