topic title: Conky does not show cpu temperature or fan speed
Posts: 1,062
Dave
Joined: 20 Jan 2010
#1
Does any one know why I can not get conky to recognize my CPU temperature and fan speed on my p31-neo MSI mother board, I do have acpi installed it shows that my temperature is"0" and it says"no fans?" for fan speed. Here is my .conkyrc

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${color white}My Home Computer

${color white}Uptime: $uptime
${color white}${time %a %d %b %k:%M}

${color white}Monitors:
${color white}cpu: ${color white}${cpu}% ${color white}${cpubar}
${color white}Tempurature: ${color white} $acpitemp 
${color white}Fan Speed: ${color white} $acpifan

${color white}processes: ${color white}$processes  ${color white}running: ${color white}$running_processes
${color white}Space:
${color white}ram : ${color white}$mem${color white}/${color white}$memmax ${color white}- ${color white}$memperc%
${color white}${membar}

${color white}swap: ${color white}$swap${color white}/${color white}$swapmax ${color white}- ${color white}$swapperc%
${color white}${swapbar}

${color white}Root:${color white} ${fs_free /} ${color white}= ${fs_free_perc /}%
${color white}${fs_bar /}

${color white}Home:${color white} ${fs_free /home/Home} ${color white}= ${fs_free_perc /home/Home}%
${color white}${fs_bar /home/Home}
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
Don't know about fan speed. My Temp lines are

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Motherboard: ${color e0e0e0}${acpitemp}°C${color}

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Cpu: ${color e0e0e0}${acpitemp}°C${color}

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Disk: ${color e0e0e0}${acpitemp}°C${color}
I am not a expert writing out .conkyrc. I borrow some from the net and tweak em for my own needs. (trial and error)

Edit: Forgot to mention. These are my lines for my Horizontal Conky that runs on my 8.5 rc2 Desktop. Picture at

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secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#3
I'm gonna talk generally. First you may have to get something like lmsensors to detect your sensors and output their readings. Then you set Conky to show them.
When I used lmsensors (nowadays it's not recommended with sensor it87) the readings were in files somewhere under /sys/bus/platform/devices and then I had to put a line in Conky pointing to them. Using a random example, something like

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cpu temp:  ${platform it87.552 temp 2} | fan RPM: ${platform it87.552 fan 2}$
But that was for older boards. Yours is quite new and may be simpler. Anyway, I'm just saying that the Conky line depends on the board.
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#4
I use this link when editing conky. It is a good tool

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OU812
Joined: 29 Sep 2007
#5
Perhaps one of the best conky resources


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john
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secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#6
This may be useful too:
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Posts: 1,062
Dave
Joined: 20 Jan 2010
#7
Thank you for the line codes and web links for conky, I will look at them and see if it works once I get my computer up again. I have to get a new hard drive because a pin fell out of the one I was using, luckily it is possible for me to retrieve the files I need off of it.
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Dave
Joined: 20 Jan 2010
#8
OK I have Spent Time looking at these sites and trying a few more things, but I still cannot figure out how to get conky to read my temperature. it continues to read 0 is it possible that MSI has it set so that the windows program they made is the only thing that can read it?
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secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#9
Dave, just in case, here are two more links:
lm-sensors home page
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and MSI settings (no p31-neo, though)
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Dave
Joined: 20 Jan 2010
#10
Used the program i these two links, went through the install and it told me I that the drivers needed where coretemp and f71882f6-* put them on and set the config file to match the p35-neo seeing how it had the same settings as my bios showed, still no luck.