Need to check fan speed - options.

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What’s the simplest modern software to do this? Or is it still conky / gkrellm.

I see oS comes with libsensors4, I can’t even work out how to initialise that, is there some kind of front end that goes with it?

Thanks.

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Hi
You need the sensors package and then as root user run sensors-detect.

Then you might need to configure the /etc/sensors3.conf package…

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Thanks Malcolm, didn’t have to configure anything but I followed these steps (last post) and found the relevant sensors already loaded. Good stuff, does the job. :good:

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unfortunately, lm-sensors do not detect any fan on any motherboard. on my laptop, it detects only the temperature. to detect the fanspeed i need to install the i8k module.
my laptop is a dell inspiron 1521.

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Think you need those: https://software.opensuse.org/package/i8kutils?search_term=i8k