F8: Dell laptop - i8kutils

[Stewart Williams]

dpet wrote:
> 	
> 	I recently had to replace the video card in my Dell 9400,
> probably because it overheated after a build-up of dust in the cooling
> system.
> 	So I am now paranoid about the temperature control of the CPU
> and the GPU fans.
> 	I think that if I run gkrellm, I can set and observe the fan
> behaviour. However, I have to have the programs display on the screen. 
>
> I have installed i8kutils and thought that I could use these
> conveniently. I thought I would find some config file to set
> temperatures. I haven't found one, and running "i8kmon -d -a -t 5 &"
> doesn't seem to work.
> 	As I am obviously confused, perhaps someone can help me.
>
> Thanks
> DP
> South Australia
>
>   

I'm afraid I have no experience with i8kutils, however as an alternative 
to gkrellm, you may be interested in looking at Conky.

http://conky.sourceforge.net/docs.html