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The title of the question says it all really. I have a new laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 installed. There appears to be an overheating problem which fortunately does not appear to be affecting performance. I suspect it is my nvidia geforce card, even though I have Bumblebee installed.

In essence what I am looking for is a way, either via terminal or an app, to monitor the temperature of components so as to definably find out what may be overheating.

gman
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Look up for lm-sensors and psensor. Those will give you a command line output as well as a GUI for your laptop.

Here is a good tutorial how to use lm-sensors: lm-sensors Howto

Bent
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To get the Nvidia card temperature, you can use nvidia-settings (if you're running the proprietary drivers):

$ nvidia-settings –q gpucoretemp

  Attribute 'GPUCoreTemp' (sylvain-Studio-XPS-1340:0.0): 51.
    'GPUCoreTemp' is an integer attribute.
    'GPUCoreTemp' is a read-only attribute.
    'GPUCoreTemp' can use the following target types: X Screen, GPU.

51°C is was you're looking for.

Sylvain Pineau
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