Bug 151777 - Temperature sensors not being detected automatically
Summary: Temperature sensors not being detected automatically
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: ksysguard
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KSysGuard Developers
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Reported: 2007-11-02 20:09 UTC by Xenophon
Modified: 2018-04-02 16:44 UTC (History)
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Description Xenophon 2007-11-02 20:09:26 UTC
Version:           1.2.0 (using KDE KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

My system is slightly dated - an ASUS A7n266-VM with an AMD XP 1800+ processor. When I loaded up Ksysguard, I couldn't find any option for tracking temperature data. Googling and IRC help led to the following page:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SensorInstallHowto#

The first comment on that page applied to my Gutsy install:

"In Gutsy the process to configure lm-sensors is much simpler. I installed lm-sensors and sensors-applet, ran sudo sensors-detect (and said yes to everything). It asks if I want it to automatically add the modules to /etc/modules, I said yes. Then restart to get the modules (one could do some modprobing, but just restarting is easier) . Then I added the sensor applet to my panel."

My results were:

#----cut here----
# I2C adapter drivers
i2c-amd756
# Chip drivers
w83781d
#----cut here----

sudo modprobe i2c-amd756
sudo modprobe w83781d

After running modprobe, I could get an option to track "Hardware sensors" in Ksysguard. The sensor names are rather cryptic though: M/"B_Temp" apparently indicates the motherboard temperature and so on.

Thanks!
Comment 1 Greg Martyn 2007-12-22 06:51:23 UTC
Those cryptic names are supplied by the manufacturer. If you list them here, with the translated name, we can try to add a lookup to ksysguard.
Comment 2 Sebastien Martel 2009-07-18 22:35:09 UTC
Is this still an issue?  Marking as needsinfo for now.
Comment 3 Julian Steinmann 2018-04-02 16:44:17 UTC
This should work OOTB now, please reopen if there are still issues with those sensors.