Libsensors3 or Im sensor how to??

**M13** · 02-Aug-2009, 20:21

Hello,
I would like to monitor my system and I heard that IM-sensors could do that and I have read else where that libsensors3 should be installed with 11.0. How do I start it and use it to monitor my system health?
Thanks for any replies,

**Christophe_deR** · 03-Aug-2009, 00:29

Install and configure sensors packages and type :

Code:

sensors-detect

in a terminal as root .
Then you can use the "sensors" command in a terminal to have informations about your sensors. The best is to use a GUI such as gkrellm or ksensors to have a constant sensor monitor in your graphical environment.

**M13** · 03-Aug-2009, 08:53

I am pretty weak in using openSuse, how do I install and configure the sensor packages? It says that libsensor3 is installed but when I su and input sensors-detect it says command not found. Thank you for any help.

**brunomcl** · 03-Aug-2009, 09:42

I think you have to install the sensors package, available in the oss repo (or the DVD, for opensuse 11.0 it's the same 3.0.2 version). At least I had to, to run sensors-detect.

HOWEVER, ksensors has been working in my laptop for a long time now and, according to YAST, sensors is not installed, only libsensors3 and 4. Maybe I removed it?

**M13** · 03-Aug-2009, 18:19

I am obviously missing something, I installed ksensors and it says it is installed but I cannot seem to find it in the menu or through search. I tried putting it in the terminal and still no luck. Where is it or how do I get it to launch please.
Thank you for any help.

**conram** · 03-Aug-2009, 20:02

Visit this links.
lmsensors & x86-64 - openSUSE Forums

Hardware monitoring in 9.2/9.3 - openSUSE Forums

**brunomcl** · 04-Aug-2009, 12:54

Originally Posted by M13

I am obviously missing something, I installed ksensors and ...

I think you're mixing things up.

sensors (that includes the sensors-detect script) is one package.
ksensors is another.
libsensors is yet another.
and lm-sensors, well, you can guess. I don't think I ever used it, or it's the 'same' as sensors.

So, did you install sensors?

**M13** · 04-Aug-2009, 19:15

Originally Posted by brunomcl

I think you're mixing things up.

sensors (that includes the sensors-detect script) is one package.
ksensors is another.
libsensors is yet another.
and lm-sensors, well, you can guess. I don't think I ever used it, or it's the 'same' as sensors.

So, did you install sensors?

Thanks brunomcl, well according to Yast, libsensor3 was installed and I installed ksensors. I did start KDE System Guard and added cpu temp but it is fixed at 40c so it is not operating correctly or seeing the sensor.
I will read the links conram suggested and see if I can learn more.
Thanks again,

**brunomcl** · 09-Aug-2009, 22:28

BUT you DIDN'T install SENSORS, did you? Without it, you can't run sensors-detect.

My apologies for the emphasis, but you seem to have missed the point twice already

**conram** · 09-Aug-2009, 22:59

Hopefully the op had a chance to read the link from the old thread I gave him.
It is a very useful thread. How I wish an old friend by the name of harryc is still very active (he is a very nice respectable man) and some of the original participant of the thread link specially the starter to re assist.