- This is my simple configuration for the Conky System Monitor
- Conky (Here intallation)
- NVIDIA Graphic Card - Only for Monitorize purposes, if you don't have one, just delete or comment the GPU lines on
.conkyrc - NVIDIA GPU Driver Installed (Here installation)
- Sensors (Here installation)
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Sensors (lm-sensors) is a program that provides a hardware health monitoring driver for Linux such as temps and voltages from the CPU, Motherboard or GPU as well, we can check that information running
sensorsin terminal. But I had a problem trying to use this in my rig.$ sensors asus-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter cpu_fan: 0 RPM coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Package id 0: +37.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +34.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 1: +37.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 2: +35.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 3: +36.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 4: +35.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 5: +35.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 6: +35.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 7: +35.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
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In my rig I have 4 fan configurations but seems that is printing the correct information, my motherboard is an ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero (WI-FI) Z390. Searching about that issue, I found this issue thread. Following that thread it seems that my motherboard's IO chip it not matching to
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Running
sudo sensors-detectdetected an unknown Super IO chip as follow:$ sudo sensors-detect [sudo] password for manuelperez: # sensors-detect revision 6284 (2015-05-31 14:00:33 +0200) # Board: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI) # Kernel: 5.3.0-28-generic x86_64 # Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz (6/158/13) Some Super I/O chips contain embedded sensors. We have to write to standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe. Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... No Trying family `SMSC'... No Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'... Yes Found unknown chip with ID 0xd42b (logical device B has address 0x290, could be sensors) <----- Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... No Trying family `SMSC'... No Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'... No Trying family `ITE'... No
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Keep checking the github issue thread shared before, found this comment, following only the first step found that my Super IO chip is
Nuvoton NCT6798D. So keep checking again this thread, found that I needed to add a boot parameter detailed here that's why I addedacpi_enforce_resources=laxin grub file:$ sudo nano /etc/default/grub GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_enforce_resources=lax" <------ GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
Save changes and then:
$ sudo update-grub $ reboot
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Just to mention that this next command:
modprobe -v nct6775needs to be executed at boot in order to check the fans speed and it needs to be executed as sudo, so we need to add that command into a rc.local file in order to not be prompted to enter the sudo password. So, to solve this we must do the next:$ sudo touch /etc/rc.local # This if the file not exists. $ sudo chmod 755 /etc/rc.localThen we need to add this content:
#!/bin/sh -e modprobe -v nct6775 exit 0
Finally it works for me:
$ sensors nct6798-isa-0290 Adapter: ISA adapter in0: 1.21 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +1.74 V) in1: 1.01 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM in2: 3.39 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM in3: 3.33 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM in4: 1.72 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM in5: 216.00 mV (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM in6: 0.00 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) in7: 3.39 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM in8: 3.15 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM in9: 536.00 mV (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM in10: 608.00 mV (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM in11: 664.00 mV (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM in12: 1.06 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM in13: 608.00 mV (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM in14: 632.00 mV (min = +0.00 V, max = +0.00 V) ALARM fan1: 1013 RPM (min = 0 RPM) fan2: 1433 RPM (min = 0 RPM) fan3: 801 RPM (min = 0 RPM) fan4: 887 RPM (min = 0 RPM) fan5: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM) fan6: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM) fan7: 2486 RPM (min = 0 RPM) SYSTIN: +25.0°C (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C) sensor = thermistor CPUTIN: +33.0°C (high = +80.0°C, hyst = +75.0°C) sensor = thermistor AUXTIN0: -128.0°C sensor = thermistor Package id 0: +36.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +33.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) ... Core 7: +34.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
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If we didn't execute
modprobe -v nct6775at every system start-up, we won't be able to see the fans information, that's why I added that command inconky-startup.shto be executed at system start-up. -
If those steps shared above didn't work for you, please go to the github issue thread shared before to try to find a solution for your motherboard.
- Just copy the
.conkyrcin~/.conkyrcwith644permissions:$ cp .conkyrc ~/.conkyrc $ chmod 644 ~/.conkyrc $ chown $USER:$USER ~/.conkyrc
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You need to create a background process where Conky will be running, in the distro that is use which is Ubuntu, I create it in Startup Applications Preferences, first we need to create a bash file for example
conky-startup.shthat is placed in this repo. -
In my case, I prefered to executed it from $HOME folder, you can execute wherever place you want. Remember that you need to execute that bash file as an application, so:
$ chmod a+x conky-startup.sh
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Then created the background process depending on your distro, here you can find the steps for Ubuntu:
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It will be the first time, so click on Add.
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And that's it, you need to restart/logout and when login you will see conky on your Desktop:
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Feel free to customize it as you desire. Enjoy!!
