Posted on Jan 06, 2021 by kingbeowulf
Sometimes a perfectly good good system tool goes overlooked until a particular need arises, as in the case of GkrellM. GKrellM is a GTK program to display a single process stack of system monitors. Usually I have it running on a second monitor to keep tabs on temperatures, fan speeds and various other parameters. Recently, when running with a single monitor and with programs fullscreen, I was missing being able to glance at this tool. Gkrellm can be set to always "on top" but that is not suitable in most cases. Then I discovered gkrellmd: The GNU Krell Monitors Server! After reviewing the man pages for each, we can start a server with
Posted on Jan 20, 2020 by kingbeowulf
In the "what could go wrong category" for information found on the interwebs, there is a work around for the missing support for the 0x8688 sensor in the new Gigabyte GIGABYTE X570 I AORUS PRO motherboard. [EDIT: This seems to be applicable to any GIGABYTE AURUS X570 motherboard to at least kernel 5.4.x]
Out of the box, CPU temperatures/voltages are available (k10temp), as are GPU temperatures/fan and voltages (amdgpu). Motherboord and CPU fans however are missing. To the kernel boot parameters in '/boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/elilo.conf' add 'acpi_enforce_resources=lax':
Jan 06, 2021
kingbeowulf
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