Hardinfo

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1 Requirements
2 Installing Hardinfo
3 Setting up the sensors package
4 See Also

Hardinfo is a system benchmarking program for Linux, it supports a number of different Linux distributions. It is equivalent to AIDA32 and EVEREST Home/Corporate Editions for Windows. Hardinfo tells you all about your computers hardware and operating system including sensor information (eg CPU Fan speed,CPU Temp etc).

The following guide is based on testing with OpenSUSE 11.0, Hardinfo works in OpenSUSE 11.1 but sensor information may not

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Requirements

Hardinfo
the sensors package

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Installing Hardinfo

Download Hardinfo (this is the 32-bit version) and then install the package.

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Setting up the sensors package

Goto a Linux command-line (CLI) and type:

su -

Note: Space and dash after su command. It is important to get proper root user environment.

and then type:

sensors-detect

Answer y to all questions
When sensors-detect has finished detecting sensors it will ask you if you would like to update sysconfig, answer y

You will need to restart your system for the sensor information to take effect

Below is the output of the sensors-detect program (some of the output may vary on another computer):

james1:/home/james # sensors-detect   
# sensors-detect revision 5249 (2008-05-11 22:56:25 +0200)
This program will help you determine which kernel modules you need
to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. It is generally safe  
and recommended to accept the default answers to all questions,   
unless you know what you're doing.                                
We can start with probing for (PCI) I2C or SMBus adapters.
Do you want to probe now? (YES/no): y                     
Probing for PCI bus adapters...                           
Sorry, no supported PCI bus adapters found.               
If you have undetectable or unsupported I2C/SMBus adapters, you can have
them scanned by manually loading the modules before running this script.
To continue, we need module `i2c-dev' to be loaded.
Do you want to load `i2c-dev' now? (YES/no): y     
Module loaded successfully.                        
We are now going to do the I2C/SMBus adapter probings. Some chips may
be double detected; we choose the one with the highest confidence    
value in that case.                                                  
If you found that the adapter hung after probing a certain address,  
you can specify that address to remain unprobed.                     
Next adapter: saa7133[0] (i2c-0)
Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): y
Client found at address 0x4b                   
Handled by driver `tuner (already loaded), chip type `tda8290+75a'
   (note: this is probably NOT a sensor chip!)                     
Client found at address 0x50                                        
Handled by driver `tveeprom' (already loaded), chip type `tveeprom' 
   (note: this is probably NOT a sensor chip!)                     
Some chips are also accessible through the ISA I/O ports. We have to
write to arbitrary I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe though                                                                  
Yes, you do have ISA I/O ports even if you do not have any ISA  slots!                                                                    
Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (YES/no):  y                                                                                       
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' at 0x290...       No                                                                           
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78-J' at 0x290...     No                                                                           
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79' at 0x290...       No                                                                           
Probing for `Winbond W83781D' at 0x290...                    No                                                                           
Probing for `Winbond W83782D' at 0x290...                   No                                                                           
Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' at 0xca0...                      No
Probing for `IPMI BMC SMIC' at 0xca8...                     No
Some Super I/O chips may also contain sensors. We have to write to
standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe.
Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): y
Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f
Trying family `National Semiconductor'...                   No
Trying family `SMSC'...                                     No
Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Fintek'...                       No
Trying family `ITE'...                                      Yes
Found `ITE IT8705F Super IO Sensors'                        Success!
   (address 0x290, driver `it87')
Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f
Trying family `National Semiconductor'...                   No
Trying family `SMSC'...                                     No
Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Fintek'...                       No
Trying family `ITE'...                                      Yes
Found `ITE IT8705F Super IO Sensors'                        Success!
   (address 0x290, driver `it87')
Some south bridges, CPUs or memory controllers may also contain
embedded sensors. Do you want to scan for them? (YES/no): y
Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595...                       No
VIA VT82C686 Integrated Sensors...                          No
VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors...                            No
AMD K8 thermal sensors...                                   No
AMD K10 thermal sensors...                                  No
Intel Core family thermal sensor...                         No
Intel AMB FB-DIMM thermal sensor...                         No
Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done.
Just press ENTER to continue:
Driver `it87' (should be inserted):
 Detects correctly:
 * ISA bus, address 0x290
   Chip `ITE IT8705F Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9)
Do you want to generate /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors? (YES/no): y

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Hardinfo

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Contents

Requirements

Installing Hardinfo

Setting up the sensors package

See Also