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[Semme]

Not knowing from where those get their info, compare:

[Mercedes350se]

[Semme]

No doubt we're on different systems so, going from acpi, take a closer look @ your path..

[ardvark]

[Mercedes350se]

[Semme]

Hmm, there's a *temperature* file aboard 431.. Don't know how 412 does it..

[8-bit]

After loading it87 with modprobe in Puppy Lupu 520, I actually get a display of CPU core temperatures and fan speeds.
But Pwidgets still shows the CPU temp as 0 and the fan display says CPU Fan no fans?
Is there a way to get Pwidgets to display the values?

[musher0]

Hello, all.

First, thanks to rcrsn51 for opening this thread. I must say that I find his
tray icon most useful.

However, a different approach might be more suited for integration in a
dynamic menu, such as pekwm's or aewm's. I'll provide examples of
menu entries later.

The script below takes the five temperatures provided by the < sensors >
command and averages them through awk. Less accurate, no doubt, but
there's only one number to grasp.

BFN.

musher0

P.S. Keep your heat sinks clean!

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[musher0]

(Cont'd from above.)

Here is a dynamic script for pekwm incorporating the Average System
Temperature in the pekwm menu.

[musher0]

(Cont'd from above)

It's pretty much the same with aemenu. Here's a snippet which is later
incorporated, in this case, into a more elaborate "Internet & Browsers"
menu.

[musher0]

Hello, everyone!

Speaking of temperature, my main -- and old -- computer died on me 10 days ago,
during a humid heat wave this valley is famous for, and I had to dust off a back-up
1.9 MHz AMD I had.

(On the positive side, this weather situation generally underscores the importance of
having a good heat sensor display on your Puppy, doesn't it?)

Now the main board on this back-up Athlon AMD has only one sensor when using
the on-board video chip. If you have an AGP video card installed, the "sensors"
utility provided by rcrsn51 in the first post of this thread will pick up three readings.
Both cases make my previous script useless.

So I adapted my script, this time to divide not by a fixed number but by the number
of sensors that the "sensors" utility recognizes. Hopefully, this will solve the problem
for good.

For the calculation, in this update, "bc" is now used instead of "expr", for greater
precision and ease of use.

Also, French and Canadian-French users now get a "floating comma" in their menu
and pager displays, whereas English-speaking users keep their traditional
"floating point".

Finally, I'm including a nice temperature icon that I found here. The colors in the
icon are tentatively matched in the displayed box.

I hope this can be of help to someone. Feedback welcome. BFN.

musher0

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[Mike Walsh]

Hi.

@rcrsn51/majorfoo:-

I concur about the P4s, with regard to CPU scaling not working. Quite simply, this is because Intel's CPUs didn't contain the requisite SpeedStep code in their instruction sets at the time of the P4's manufacture. It had been originally implemented in the 2nd-gen P3s.....but then skipped a generation, due to Intel becoming obsessed with all-out speed in the P4s..... and next appeared in the Pentium 4-M's which were developed for mobile devices. And of course, mobile devices need to watch their power consumption more than a desktop PC.

And with regard to the tray icon displaying a temp for the P4s, it largely depends on the motherboard manufacturer. The P4s didn't have an embedded temp sensor on-board the chip itself; AFAIK, the sensor was embedded, instead, in the CPU socket, for some strange reason..... Some manufacturers fitted the socket with the sensor; some didn't.

I have a 2.6 GHz, non-HT P4 in my old Dell laptop (previously running a 2.2 GHz Celeron), so I know this to be true from personal experience. It's unfortunate they chose to fit a full, desktop processor into their laptops at the time of the Inspiron 1100's manufacture. They did compensate for this to some extent by fitting the 1100 with a truly enormous battery pack; mine supplies somewhere in the region of nearly 16 volts, @ 7480 mAh (!!).....which largely contributed to the all-in weight of around 7.5 lbs.

The battery pack alone weighs more than a MacBook 'Air'.....

But despite being almost 13 yrs old, she runs Tahrpup flawlessly.....and quite nippy with it, too!


Regards,

Mike.

[musher0]

Hi, Mike.

Thanks for the sensor info on the P4's. It's good to get confirmation, to know.

@all: Witness the power of the awk!

[rcrsn51]

CPUtemp v1.9 posted above.

[Mayou]

Version 1.7 is enough on my old laptop
icon appears down my screen 63°C, not bad