kmack Posted September 28, 2003 Report Share Posted September 28, 2003 Has anyone tried this yet? I found a reference on texstar's forum and it looks nice. http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/jacobi/linu...es.html#athcool He has some other interesting software too. 8) EDIT: Wahoo! Ran it using the rpm -tb install instructions and in one minute dropped temp from 49 to 41 C! Listening to a cd as I type and no sound problems. A bit early to tell if hd speed is affected, but so far I love it and see no change in opening applications, etc. WOW! Just checked sensors again and am down to 35C! That is 14 C temp drop! :D I am running abit KR7A-133 and it is KT-266 chipset with Athlon XP 1600+ make sure your chipset is ok with this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted September 28, 2003 Report Share Posted September 28, 2003 This is probably using those command lines: http://www.daniel.nofftz.net/linux/ I have a AMD-751 based motherboard and I enable cpu cooling by typing as root: setpci -v -s 0:0.0 0x62=$(printf %x $((0x$(setpci -H1 -s 0:0.0 62) | 0x06))) and disable it with setpci -v -s 0:0.0 0x62=$(printf %x $((0x$(setpci -H1 -s 0:0.0 62) & 0xf9))) We (you too) talked about it alot here: http://mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=4100 And yes it drops the cpu temp like crazy man! MottS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted September 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2003 Motts: I sure do remember, but I could never make it work on my mobo using those settings. :( I've been hoping for a solution ever since I built this computer as it always seemed hot for as light a load as it runs. This package worked right out of the box though. It also helped me learn how to do the rpm -tb with a tar.gz file too. Pretty slick trick! Now I can even uninstall it if I want! EDIT: I think it might have to do with the kernel upgrades I have done since. I am running 2.4.21-0.25mdk now and it may have a better patch / mod in it than the original kernel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 This piece of software is awesome. Without it, my CPU temp is 50C+. With it, my temp is in the low 40s and sometimes high 30s. I never could find the setpci command that worked for this MoBo, but this software worked right out of the box. (Well, it didn't work until I upgraded my kernel to the one right after the default 9.1). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilimanjaro Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Is there some way to monitor my cpu temp? I have no idea how hot mine is running, but I do have three fans, one on the cpu and 2 for the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 It depends on the motherboard. If it is a fairly new motherboard, it should have temperature sensors on it. You can install lm_sensors and then run sensors-detect and it will talk you through the rest. To actually monitor the temps, my favorite is gkrellm. Just install gkrellm and gkrellm-plugins (actually, I don't thing gkrellm-plugins is actually required...I think the sensors part is built in to gkrellm) and run gkrellm and right click near the top of the gkrellm window and go to configuration and enable the sensors. You should run the sensors for a little while and then reboot and go into BIOS settings and see if the temperatures are the same (usually your OS will report a slightly higher temp than the actual temp). If your BIOS doesn't have a section that shows you your actual temps, you should get a thermometer and check. gkrellm has offsets for the difference if there is any. You can actually get much closer readings by also figuring out the factor too, but that requires comparing the two temps (actual and reading) and then changing room temp (or disconnecting one of your case fans temporarily....NEVER disconnect the CPU fan) and comparing the actual versus the reading. (All this is spelled out in /usr/share/doc/lm_sensors-<<whatever version number>> or in man lm_sensors....I forget which). Probably way more info than you wanted. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilimanjaro Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 I have an Aopen ax4bs I don't know if it has sensors or not. Hopefully in the next couple of moths I will upgrade motherboard and ddr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 It's a p4 board? It should have sensors. Install lm_sensors and run sensors-detect and you'll know for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilimanjaro Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 I installed it, and now I can't find it, and rpmdrake doesn't show it any more, it is lost in the black hole of my operating system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkrekula Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Hi. I have used Athcool 0.2 with Mandrake 9.1 successfully for many months on my NForce system. Now with Mandrake 9.2, I installed Athcool 0.3.1 from contrib and when I start it it just freezes my computer. Is this due to the Mandrake 9.2 or the Athcool version? /Kenneth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Probably mandrake 9.2 kernel.. It's too new a distro right now to be well supported. The niggles and glitches are not totally known and fixed yet. But just in case, have you tried the tarball version of athcool since maybe there is a version that is newer than the contrib version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted October 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 I have not installed 9.2 yet, so these are merely random thoughts: I think Dragonmage is correct, you probably need to use the source version or check out how the current .src.rpm is pointed. Did you rebuild the .src.rpm again or use the same rpm you had setup for 9.1? I think you need to rebuild for the new version to work properly. You might try rebuilding the .src.rpm for the new kernel. (you need kernel source to do this) My guess is the kernel is the key, and in fact there may already be a kernel module present to work with acpi and allow acpi to perform this function. Do you have acpi running as a service in 9.2? That might even be kewler. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 kkrekula, There seems to be a new test kernel that could solve the problem with NForce 2 MBs. I found it when reading the mandrake-expert mailing list archives http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2...10/msg00892.php Let me know whether it solves your athcool problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 wow. i got a massive temp drop (for me) from 61C to 54C on my overclocked 2000+ (to 2100+). you know what this means. time to go 2200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted October 22, 2003 Report Share Posted October 22, 2003 wow. i got a massive temp drop (for me) from 61C to 54C on my overclocked 2000+ (to 2100+). you know what this means. time to go 2200 You know the drop only happen when the cpu is idle don't you? Go to 2200 and play a bit of quake, and watch the smoke appears from your cpu but go ahead.. I always like a little bit of destruction (especially if the thing being destroyed is not mine) Anyway, I did try that utitlity and watched my temp drop from high 30s -low 40s to around 33C. Quite a drop for an overclocked 1700+ :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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