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Obadobo

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Registered: 2011-06-12

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Conky temperature misreading

Conky tells me that my netbook is at 0 degrees.  conkyrc has "Temperature: $alignr${acpitemp}C" (the C is because I've never found the degree symbol!).  It was reading correctly, and I think that the bug has arisen since booting from linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae rather than linux-image-2.6.32-5-686.  Could this be the source of the problem?

Any ideas gratefully received

mynis01

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2010-07-02

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Re: Conky temperature misreading

CPU Temp: ${alignr}${hwmon 0 temp 1}°C

Obadobo

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Re: Conky temperature misreading

Great!  Thanks a million - plus I've got the ° symbol now.  But why did the old one stop working?

mynis01

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Re: Conky temperature misreading

I'm not really sure why it changed, I suppose they probably consolidated the code for all of the different temperature sensors into one. Now if only I could get my Athlon LE-1600 to display something besides 40°.

Obadobo

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Re: Conky temperature misreading

Thanks again

pvsage

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Re: Conky temperature misreading

Conky tells me that my netbook is at 0 degrees.  conkyrc has "Temperature: $alignr${acpitemp}C" (the C is because I've never found the degree symbol!).  It was reading correctly, and I think that the bug has arisen since booting from linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae rather than linux-image-2.6.32-5-686.  Could this be the source of the problem?

Any ideas gratefully received

Some point between 2.6.36 and 2.6.38 acpitemp became depricated.  (Actually, I think it was already depricated by 2.6.36; support for it was just removed by 2.6.38.)

@mynis01:  Thanks for posting that; it looks very familiar.

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mynis01

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Re: Conky temperature misreading

Shortly after posting in this thread, I upgraded my kernel to version and found a workaround for the temp sensor issue. I ran sensors-detect and then added the following line to conky:

CPUtemp: ${alignr}${execpi 8 sensors | grep 'Core0' | cut --characters 16-17}°C

This is a bit hack-ish, and it will probably have to be modified depending on your hardware/software configuration. Just look out the output of the "sensors" command and determine what the correct arguments for grep and cut are.