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Questions tagged [temperature]

For questions regarding the use of Ubuntu software to control or monitor hardware temperature, such as by controlling fan speed or showing readouts.

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How do I get the CPU temperature?

How do I get the CPU temperature?
trampster
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How to see the Video Card Temperature (Nvidia, ATI, Intel...)

Is there a command (Via terminal) to see the temperature of any video card. Already Tried sensors with the sensors-detect applied. Does not detect for example, Nvidia and ATI video card temperatures.
Luis Alvarado
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CPU temperature monitor for 14.04LTS?

Is there a way to configure psensor so the temperatures read out in real time in the panel so it could be read at a glance? So far, in order to read the temperature I have to click on the applet indicator. On 12.04 I had a Hardware Indicator Sensors…
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What do the different thermal zones actually correspond to?

I've just finished building a new machine with a i9 9900k CPU, a CPU with 1 socket, 8 cores and 16 threads. I installed Ubuntu Bionic on it, and I am just about to add checks to the CPU temperatures. However, when I run cat…
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Set CPU temperature throttle threshold on Ubuntu/Thinkpad

I receive following error messages a couple of times per hour: 08.03.18 21:27 kernel CPU0: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 2234) 08.03.18 21:27 kernel CPU2: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock…
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Fan speed in ubuntu: pwmconfig no pwm-capable sensor modules installed

I followed this guide about how to control fan speed in Ubuntu, but it doesn't work with my laptop (Dell Inspiron 15r). I installed lm-sensors and fancontrol packages. Then I configured lm-sensors by typing: sudo sensors-detect and I answered YES to…
Kurt Bourbaki
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How to monitor & log server hardware temperatures & load

I am looking for a way to log & monitor my server hardware temperatures and load (like for CPU or RAM). How might I do that? Objective is to: ensure hardware is not heating up identify what should be upgraded & what is in excess (like perhaps to…
Jiew Meng
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How to detect processor correct temperature in conky

I am using conky&conkyforecast to have a nice widget containing some system information and weather data. But I can see that the temperature that conky shows is different than the one I get running in terminal sensors. Conky script…
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How to reset SMART results

How can I reset the SMART results so it does not register previous results. My reason is that I was testing the hard drives closed together on a closed case. This made one of the HDD fail the Airflow Temperature reading. After opening the case up…
Luis Alvarado
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What is my CPU Temperature

to get my CPU temperatures i first typed sudo sensors-detect and confirmed everything with yes. Then i typed sudo service module-init-tools restart Now this is the output of sudo sensors, but which is my CPU temperature? (And what are the other…
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Laptop CPU+GPU overheating after update to 18.04 LTS

I had this same issue in my last attempt to upgrade (with a clean install) from 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS. When I am browsing internet and specially when I am playing videos my CPU+GPU raises to fast to high levels causing throttling to fire and…
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My ubuntu macbook pro feels warm, can I solve this?

I've installed Ubuntu 13.04 in a partition on my MacBook Pro (MC724LL/A), it runs well, I've also installed Jupiter, mbpfan, Intel Linux Graphics Installer and updated the drivers. I'm booting with rEFInd, installed in the OS X partition (so to…
oblitum
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Night light and Redshift don't work

I installed Ubuntu on a disk partition just two days ago and everything work like a charm. The only problem I'm having is with the screen temperature color. In Windows I use f.lux and I set the color temperature as red as possible (3500K)…
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How do I know my fan is working in Ubuntu

I just bought a brand new netbook and am worried the fan isn't working properly. lm-sensors does not detect a fan, I can't hear a fan, and can't feel air blowing out of the fan area. The netbook is a brand new Toshiba Satellite NB10-A. I'm worried…
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Stop cpu from overheating

When running intensive apps like blender my CPU can get up to 80.C I can manually underclock the CPU from the BIOS but I would like to have my pc detect when the CPU temp gets too high and slow things down until everything cools down. Is there a way…
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