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mac57

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From: St. Somewhere

Registered: 2006-01-06

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lm_sensors Module for nVidia 6200 GPU?

I have just "upgraded" and old machine of mine from a PCI based nVidia 5200 to an AGP 4x based nVidia 6200 GPU. I see that along with the better performance, I get a GPU temperature meter in the nvidia-settings application. Is there an lm_sensors module for this, so that I can display all of my sensor data in one place? Searching and Googling doesn't seem to have turned up anything helpful in this regard. Any and all help much appreciated!

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Cast off the Microsoft shackles Jan 2005

MrWeatherbee

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Registered: 2007-08-01

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Re: lm_sensors Module for nVidia 6200 GPU?

I see that along with the better performance, I get a GPU temperature meter in the nvidia-settings application. Is there an lm_sensors module for this, so that I can display all of my sensor data in one place?

I had an account over at NVNews.com, so I checked for some info, and it seems that a few conversations indicate the only access to the readings are via nvidia-settings or nvclock.

Here are a couple of possibly relevant posts, though they reference different cards :

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr … 83&t=54427

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=94300

Some of the info is kind of old, but I don't see that anything has changed. If you feel like signing up over there, maybe someone can confirm that the state of lm-sensors in regard to nvidia gpu chips is still the same.

Apologies for not being able to provide a more definitive answer, and normally I wouldn't have even bothered with such  info, but this thread has been sitting in the "unanswered" bin for a little while, so I figured something might be better than nothing.

mac57

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From: St. Somewhere

Registered: 2006-01-06

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Re: lm_sensors Module for nVidia 6200 GPU?

Thanks MrWeatherbee, as always you are a fountain of useful information. It does appear that I am out of luck for an lm_sensor for nVidia, which is too bad. Once you marry lm_sensors up to SuperKaramba, it seems such a pain to have to launch a separate app (nvidia-settings) to monitor just the GPU. However, if that is what it takes...

Oh, BTW, off topic here - back to the mouse configuration we posted back and forth about a few weeks ago. The acid test has been passed. I got an old Logitech mouse with just one thumb button (Logitech Mouseman Wheel, PS/2, roller ball, not laser!) fully configured and working on a different distro, using the ideas we developed and documented. None of this would have been possible without your insights. Thanks so much!!

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Cast off the Microsoft shackles Jan 2005

samoturk

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From: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 86

Re: lm_sensors Module for nVidia 6200 GPU?

You can use

nvclock -T

to show you gpu temperature. You can install it with pacman. It is in extra repository.

So you can than modify your superkaramba script to show you gpu temperature with this command. If you don't know how to modify supercaramba script, tell us which superkaramba theme you are using and we will help you.