How do you display cpu temperature?

Tait Clarridge tait at clarridge.ca
Fri Oct 16 17:41:42 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 10:34 -0700, suvayu ali wrote:
> 2009/10/16 Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>:
> > On my F11 laptop one can cat:
> > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
> > and the cpu temperature is displayed.
> >
> > On my desktop running F11 there is no file like that. So:
> > 1. How do I display cpu temperature on my desktop?
> > 2. Could this be because my desktop has a dual core cpu?
> 
> I would suggest to look into conky, although it does a lot more than
> just monitor your hardware. To get an idea about what it can do, try
> looking here.
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865&highlight=conky
> You might want to look into this particular post. ;)
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8106123&postcount=9832
> 
> To install just,
> $ yum install conky
> 
> Hopefully this wasn't too much out of the line.
> -- 
> Suvayu
> 
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
> 

Conky will not help if sensors-detect doesn't find anything! As far as I
know, if running "sensors" doesn't output any temperature for CPUs then
the OP will not be able to view temperature using any application..
whether it is conky or any gnome applet.
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