Can not get Thermal monitor to work

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i get a message when i try to start it that says

Make sure that thermal daemon started with --dbus-enable option
and that you’re in the ‘power’ group.

i am in the power group but i don’t know about dbus

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What command are you actually attempting to run?

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Thermal Monitor from the application menu , under system .

i installed it this morning because i can’t get System Monitor
to see the temperature of my video card . it does report the
cpu teperature though .

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Gnome? KDE? XFCE? LXQt? Sway? i3? icewm? What desktop?

If you don’t know, a screenshot would be nice to see, so we know what it is you’re clicking on

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it’s in kde .

ThermalMonitor
ThermalMonitor1928×1080 237 KB

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what is the output of systemctl status thermald

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reidkb@astrid:~> systemctl status thermald
○ thermald.service - Thermal Daemon Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/thermald.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)

as you can see i got Thermal Monitor to work by :

thermald --dbus-enable

Now thermal Monitor gives me no temperatures in it’s settings.

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In a terminal, what is the output of sensors?

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reidkb@astrid:~> sensors
acpitz-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
temp1:        +29.0°C  (crit = +70.0°C)

k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Tctl:         +29.0°C
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Why aren’t you using the provided systemd service to start thermald

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because i don’t know how to . my problem is ignorance . i have not looked at a linux
book in 20 years and i have had it easy with opensuse .
i have the books from opensuse docs , i’ll have to read them .

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Do the following

 sudo systemctl enable --now thermald.service

Then check the status again with

sudo systemctl status thermald
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astrid:/home/reidkb # systemctl enable --now thermald.service
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.thermald.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/thermald.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/thermald.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/thermald.service.
astrid:/home/reidkb # systemctl status thermald
○ thermald.service - Thermal Daemon Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/thermald.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2023-08-02 21:28:04 EDT; 20s ago
    Process: 22481 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/thermald --systemd --dbus-enable --adaptive --config-file ${THERMALD_CONFIG} --poll-interval $THERMALD>
   Main PID: 22481 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Aug 02 21:28:04 astrid systemd[1]: Starting Thermal Daemon Service...
Aug 02 21:28:04 astrid thermald[22481]: Failed to get the primary well-known name:
Aug 02 21:28:04 astrid thermald[22481]: Unsupported cpu model or platform
Aug 02 21:28:04 astrid thermald[22481]: Polling enabled: 4
Aug 02 21:28:04 astrid systemd[1]: thermald.service: Deactivated successfully.
Aug 02 21:28:04 astrid systemd[1]: Started Thermal Daemon Service.
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[1]+  Stopped                 systemctl status thermald
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So what I take away from your posts so far: You have the kernel modules active and lm_sensors can read them, but thermald in opensuse doesn’t support Ryzen CPUs. I could be wrong about the last part but the message from systemctl status seems to say just that.

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From where in this thread did you get the information that a Ryzen CPU is involved to support your statement? The reporter said explicitly that he can’t get the temperature of his video card. The temperatures of his CPU are shown…

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There. k10temp-pci-00c3 is the CPU temperature sensor for AMD Zen class CPUs.