Okay, this is an issue I've been struggling with for a while and I eventually got a better cooler and stopped caring for a while. But now I'm curious again. How the heck do you monitor an AMD FX CPU from the command line under Debian Linux? I've got mine running a Proxmox server and it works great but I'd like to monitor the temp with the Zabbix agent. Is this possible at all with these chips? I've tried several temp programs and theyve all given off the wall readings...any ideas?
Take a look at lm-sensors.
I tried that. It installs and seems to detect okay, but when I run "sensors" as root it only gives one sensor, titled "PCI Adapter" and the reading is 27 degrees Celsius. That may be right but that seemed oddly low to me (I have my FX6300 at stock clocks with an H60 cooler)
AMD chips have horrible temp sensors, so any readout that you do get will be a bit inaccurate.
you can install acpi
$ sudo apt-get install acpi
then run it with
$ acpi -V
Rats, I thought I remembered reading that but I wasn't sure if it was true. Proxmox apparently has acpi installed out of the box, because it was already there. When I run acpi -V I get:
Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 0
Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 0
And so on all the way up to 6. It also says "No support for device type: power_supply". Sorry for my ignorance here but I am still somewhat of a Linux newbie
I'm using Arch Linux and I had the same problem. I installed the i2c-tools package, then I ran i2cdetect and answered yes to all the questions.
After that I had CPU and GPU temps (by doing sensors on the terminal). There were a lot of other readings too, I did a CPU stress test to see which temperatures were that of the CPU, and I ran a game for the GPU temps.
Just to make sure, you did run 'sensors-detect' and restart the 'service module-init-tools' before executing sensors?
If you did, what board are you using?
for my AMD gpu I use aticonfig --odgt, gives a read out with temps
I did sensors-detect but I didn't restart the service. I will try that later today but I've rebooted it multiple times so seems like that would have restarted the service.
Where do you get the aticonfig package in Debian? Can you just run apt-get install aticonfig, or do you have to download it from somewhere else?
It's part of Catalyst, if I am not mistaken. The proprietary AMD drivers. Never used them, so I can't really comment past this point.
Ah okay. Well ty anyway, I will probably just do without (never had any issues out my H60 anyway, just wanted to see if it was possible to monitor it)
K8/10 sensors work out of the box - otherwise recompile for support. Linky
Ic2 adapter settings can be fiddly to setup unless you know what you're doing, otherwise an alternative is to write your own monitoring system hooking into the amd-sdk - this is what a lot of the digital currency mining scripts do.