There are basically two programs in linux to monitor the temp and fan speeds from the motherboard. One is LMSensors, and is mentioned in the Power Management howto page. The big problem with lmsensors is that it requires kernel modules that knoppmyth doesn't currently have.

Update on 7/1/06: lm_sensors can be used with Knoppmyth versions R5A30.2 and newer. LmSensorsHowTo describes how to update to the latest version of lm_sensors, which supports a broader range of chipsets including the chipset used by the Asus P5P800-SE motherboard.

While googling the other day I ran across another program that provides this functionality from userspace, and works on KnoppMyth. It is called xmbmon It does not work with all motherboards, but is worth a shot. It looks like it supports a good many.

We can list success and failure stories here.
MotherBoardsThatWorkWithXmbmon
MotherBoardsThatDonotWorkWithXmbmon

The rest of this page will be devoted to a walkthrough of how I got it up and running on my box.

Note: DOH! I could have sworn I tried apt, but looked again and there it is, so apt-get update apt-get install mbmon xmbmon should get you up in no time. You can now jump to #4 and skip #5-6

• xmbmon is now included by default with R5A12

1) Get the source. You can put this anywhere, I used /usr/src . Note that you have to be su to download anything to /usr/src

2) Unpack the source.

2b) Optional step: If you want a patch applied to get temperatures from Asus A7N8X-VM/400.

3) Configure and Compile

4) Test to see if it will work with your Motherboard. As root | ./mbmon -d |

I got output that looked like

If you get output like below, then it probably won't work for you, but you can look through the README file there is some stuff to try.

5) Next we will need to edit the Makefile to make it conform to a knoppmyth install. Use vi or whatever text editor you are familiar with.

change the lines.

to be

and

to be

6) Now we install as root

7) Now you can run the program

It may give you odd values. It did for me, if it does read the README file. To make it work on my chaintek 7nif2 I have to run it like this

8) The program has some other nifty options like being able to be run in a daemon mode, so it can be checked from a remote machine to do this I ran.

and to check it from a remote machine I run (I have a dns server and mythtv is the hostname of my myth box you can also use IP)

the output looks like this.

Please review the README it is pretty easy to read and covers many topics I have not covered here.

Q: when I install xmbmon via apt-get, I can't do an ssh connection and tunnel X output to a Windows or OS X machine. I get "seteuid: operation not permitted". If I compile it through the directions above, it works and I can view xmbmon via Cygwin/Win or X11/OS X. What might be happening here? -- all I can think is that in my instructions above I did not install setuid or setgid I simply assigned it to the mythtv group, whereas the deb package may well install setuid or setgid. -- Xsecrets