Looking for suggestions on Conky display.

[Logansfury]

Good Afternoon all,

I am using Conky Minimalis for a real-time system info display on my monitor. I am not using a shaved down, or streamlined minimalist display, instead I am looking to display as much info as possible.

I replaced the single CPU celsius temp readout with a readout that showed both fahrenheit and celsius for each of my 4 CPU cores. I added Fahrenheit display of my GPU temp alongside the default Celsius display. I added my internal IP addy to the Network section. Just to see how it was done I also acquired the code to display public IP, but as soon as I proved it was possible to display I removed it. (Didn't want to have anything private showing up a screenshot on a night I was too sleepy to remember to blur stuff out.)

I saw references online to monitors showing fan speeds, but determined my mobo doesn't have the proper hardware to send fan speed data to the computer for display.

Here is what I have so far: https://imgur.com/a/bnl3aek

Can anyone suggest any other system info that could be added to this display?

Thanks for reading!
Logan

[Koentje]

There is lots of info that can be displayed! http://www.cobrasoft.nl/download/conky/my-conkys.mp4
(All conky btw)

The question is, what do you want to be displayed?

If you give some info about your motherboard i can find out if there is a module for your chipset that can be loaded so you can see fan speeds. Try sensors on the terminal and see if it already shows fan speed.

[Logansfury]

my sensors output isn't very deep:

logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ sensors
pch_skylake-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +48.5°C

acpitz-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
temp1: +27.8°C (crit = +119.0°C)
temp2: +29.8°C (crit = +119.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0: +37.0°C (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0: +34.0°C (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1: +35.0°C (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 2: +34.0°C (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 3: +35.0°C (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

radeon-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +52.5°C (crit = +120.0°C, hyst = +90.0°C)


Nothing about fan speeds unfortunately.

Here is what System Info has to say about mobo:

Mobo: Dell model: 0T7D40 v: A01 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell v: 1.21.0
date: 12/08/2021

[Koentje]

Try to load module i8k. sudo modprobe -v i8k
And try sensors again.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/controlli ... ian-linux/

[Logansfury]

Try to load module i8k. sudo modprobe -v i8k
And try sensors again.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/controlli ... ian-linux/

This looks like it would have been so cool!! Unfortunately I got an error:

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logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ sudo modprobe -v i8k
[sudo] password for logansfury:           
insmod /lib/modules/5.15.0-91-generic/kernel/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.ko 
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'dell_smm_hwmon': No such device
logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$

[Logansfury]

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/controlli ... ian-linux/

It's showing on the page that a Dell laptop is a prerequisite, My OptiPlex-5040 is a desktop however.

[Koentje]

Can you post the outcome of inxi -Fxxxn

And try sensors-detect to see which chipset it finds.

[Koentje]

I found another site that has the 5070 and he got the same error. But with the force option it did show fan speeds!
See: https://blog.tiga.tech/posts/dell-optip ... -fan-speed
You can try his steps and see if it works for you.

To test it first sudo modprobe i8k force=1

[Logansfury]

Can you post the outcome of inxi -Fxxxn

And try sensors-detect to see which chipset it finds.

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logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ inxi -Fxxxn
System:
  Host: OptiPlex-5040 Kernel: 5.15.0-91-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7
    dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 5040 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0T7D40 v: A01 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: 1.21.0 date: 12/08/2021
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-6500 bits: 64 type: MCP
    smt: <unsupported> arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
    L3: 6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2744 high: 2971 min/max: 800/3600 cores: 1: 2402
    2: 2971 3: 2664 4: 2939 bogomips: 25599
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Turks PRO [Radeon HD 6570/7570/8550 / R5 230] driver: radeon
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2
    empty: VGA-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6759 class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: ati,radeon
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: radeon display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x286mm (40.0x11.3")
    s-diag: 1055mm (41.6")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-0 mapped: HDMI-A-1 pos: primary,left model: Asus VS278
    serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82
    size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 686mm (27") modes: max: 1920x1080
    min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: HDMI-1 mapped: HDMI-A-2 pos: right model: VG27A
    serial:<filter> res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82
    size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 685mm (27") modes: max: 1920x1080
    min: 720x400
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD TURKS (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.15.0-91-generic LLVM 15.0.7)
    v: 4.5 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a170
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Turks HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500/6600 / 6700M Series]
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aa90 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Generalplus USB Audio Device type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-6.2:30
    chip-ID: 1b3f:2008 class-ID: 0300
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-91-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel
    port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8188ETV Wireless LAN 802.11n Network Adapter
    type: USB driver: r8188eu bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 0bda:0179 class-ID: 0000
    serial: <filter>
  IF: wlx7cb232bdeee1 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 131.82 GiB (28.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST500DM009-2F110A size: 465.76 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: CC43 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 456.89 GiB used: 131.81 GiB (28.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 1.5 MiB (0.1%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C pch: 49.0 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: radeon
    temp: 54.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 302 Uptime: 16d 21h 33m wakeups: 0 Memory: 31.27 GiB
  used: 2.68 GiB (8.6%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Packages: 2549 apt: 2526 flatpak: 23 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.13
logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$

[Logansfury]

Can you post the outcome of inxi -Fxxxn

And try sensors-detect to see which chipset it finds.

logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ sensors-detect
You need to be root to run this script.
logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ sudo sensors-detect
[sudo] password for logansfury:
# sensors-detect version 3.6.0
# System: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 5040
# Board: Dell Inc. 0T7D40
# Kernel: 5.15.0-91-generic x86_64
# Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz (6/94/3)

This program will help you determine which kernel modules you need
to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. It is generally safe
and recommended to accept the default answers to all questions,
unless you know what you're doing.

Some south bridges, CPUs or memory controllers contain embedded sensors.
Do you want to scan for them? This is totally safe. (YES/no): y
Module cpuid loaded successfully.
Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595... No
VIA VT82C686 Integrated Sensors... No
VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors... No
AMD K8 thermal sensors... No
AMD Family 10h thermal sensors... No
AMD Family 11h thermal sensors... No
AMD Family 12h and 14h thermal sensors... No
AMD Family 15h thermal sensors... No
AMD Family 16h thermal sensors... No
AMD Family 17h thermal sensors... No
AMD Family 15h power sensors... No
AMD Family 16h power sensors... No
Hygon Family 18h thermal sensors... No
Intel digital thermal sensor... Success!
(driver `coretemp')
Intel AMB FB-DIMM thermal sensor... No
Intel 5500/5520/X58 thermal sensor... No
VIA C7 thermal sensor... No
VIA Nano thermal sensor... No

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): y
Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f
Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... No
Trying family `SMSC'... Yes
Found unknown chip with ID 0xcab0
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

Some systems (mainly servers) implement IPMI, a set of common interfaces
through which system health data may be retrieved, amongst other things.
We first try to get the information from SMBIOS. If we don't find it
there, we have to read from arbitrary I/O ports to probe for such
interfaces. This is normally safe. Do you want to scan for IPMI
interfaces? (YES/no): y
Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' at 0xca0... No
Probing for `IPMI BMC SMIC' at 0xca8... No

Some hardware monitoring chips are accessible through the ISA I/O ports.
We have to write to arbitrary I/O ports to probe them. This is usually
safe though. Yes, you do have ISA I/O ports even if you do not have any
ISA slots! Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (YES/no): y
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM78' at 0x290... No
Probing for `National Semiconductor LM79' at 0x290... No
Probing for `Winbond W83781D' at 0x290... No
Probing for `Winbond W83782D' at 0x290... No

Lastly, we can probe the I2C/SMBus adapters for connected hardware
monitoring devices. This is the most risky part, and while it works
reasonably well on most systems, it has been reported to cause trouble
on some systems.
Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? (YES/no): y
Using driver `i2c-i801' for device 0000:00:1f.4: Sunrise Point-H (PCH)

Next adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at f000 (i2c-0)
Do you want to scan it? (YES/no/selectively): y
Client found at address 0x50
Handled by driver `at24' (already loaded), chip type `spd'
(note: this is probably NOT a sensor chip!)
Client found at address 0x51
Handled by driver `at24' (already loaded), chip type `spd'
(note: this is probably NOT a sensor chip!)
Client found at address 0x52
Handled by driver `at24' (already loaded), chip type `spd'
(note: this is probably NOT a sensor chip!)
Client found at address 0x53
Handled by driver `at24' (already loaded), chip type `spd'
(note: this is probably NOT a sensor chip!)

Next adapter: Radeon i2c bit bus 0x90 (i2c-1)
Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): y

Next adapter: Radeon i2c bit bus 0x91 (i2c-2)
Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): y

Next adapter: Radeon i2c bit bus 0x92 (i2c-3)
Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): y

Next adapter: Radeon i2c bit bus 0x93 (i2c-4)
Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): y

Next adapter: Radeon i2c bit bus 0x94 (i2c-5)
Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively):

[Koentje]

Can you post requested output between code tags, that is more readable!!

That's the </> button.

edit: and have you tried sudo modprobe i8k force=1 ?

[Logansfury]

Sorry for the large block of text I thought it would display better if I left it alone.

trying the force command now, and it seems to have worked.

[Logansfury]

Can you post requested output between code tags, that is more readable!!

That's the </> button.

edit: and have you tried sudo modprobe i8k force=1 ?

Force command did it!! Check this out

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logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ sudo modprobe i8k force=1
[sudo] password for logansfury:           
logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ sensors
dell_smm-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Processor Fan:   1113 RPM
Motherboard Fan: 1063 RPM
Ambient:          +45.0°C  
CPU:              +39.0°C  

pch_skylake-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +50.5°C  

acpitz-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
temp1:        +27.8°C  (crit = +119.0°C)
temp2:        +29.8°C  (crit = +119.0°C)

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0:  +41.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0:        +38.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1:        +41.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 2:        +38.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 3:        +40.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

radeon-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:        +58.5°C  (crit = +120.0°C, hyst = +90.0°C)

logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$

I see Processor and Motherboard Fan data

Is there a command that will isolate these figures for display in conky?

[Logansfury]

stumbling upon the correct commands with ChatGPT3.5

So far I've got:

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sensors | grep -i Processor

and

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sensors | grep -i Motherboard

[Logansfury]

stumbling upon the correct commands with ChatGPT3.5

So far I've got:

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sensors | grep -i Processor

and

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sensors | grep -i Motherboard

[Logansfury]

stumbling upon the correct commands with ChatGPT3.5

So far I've got:

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sensors | grep -i Processor

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sensors | grep -i Motherboard

[Koentje]

Before we do that, first we need to make it permanent. So at every boot the module is force loaded.

For one-time usage, simply run this: sudo modprobe i8k force=1

If you wish to always load the driver at boot time, here’s how:

echo 'i8k' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
By adding the line i8k to /etc/modules, we instruct the system to load the module at boot time.

echo 'options i8k force=1' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/i8k.conf
By adding the line options i8k force=1 to /etc/modprobe.d/i8k.conf, we instruct the system which options to use when loading the module.
You can name this whatever you like as long as it has a .conf extension.
Reboot to see the change.

You will now be able to view the fan speed with sensors.

From the link i gave: https://blog.tiga.tech/posts/dell-optip ... fan-speed/

[Logansfury]

Before we do that, first we need to make it permanent. So at every boot the module is force loaded.

For one-time usage, simply run this: sudo modprobe i8k force=1

If you wish to always load the driver at boot time, here’s how:

echo 'i8k' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
By adding the line i8k to /etc/modules, we instruct the system to load the module at boot time.

echo 'options i8k force=1' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/i8k.conf
By adding the line options i8k force=1 to /etc/modprobe.d/i8k.conf, we instruct the system which options to use when loading the module.
You can name this whatever you like as long as it has a .conf extension.
Reboot to see the change.

You will now be able to view the fan speed with sensors.

From the link i gave: https://blog.tiga.tech/posts/dell-optip ... fan-speed/

Koentje this is awesome, thank you so much for taking the time to instruct me on all these steps. I have found commands to display the RPM's well, and I have just implemented the two commands you gave above:

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logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ sensors | awk '/Processor Fan:/ {print $3 " RPM"}'
930 RPM
logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ sensors | awk '/Motherboard Fan:/ {print $3 " RPM"}'
716 RPM
logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ echo 'i8k' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
[sudo] password for logansfury:           
i8k
logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ echo 'options i8k force=1' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/i8k.conf
options i8k force=1
logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$

I'm rebooting my system now

[Logansfury]

Reboot went fine, no smoke and/or flames coming from the computer chassis.

Steps to make changes permanent appear to have worked fine:

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logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0:  +43.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0:        +41.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1:        +42.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 2:        +41.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 3:        +43.0°C  (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

dell_smm-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Processor Fan:    928 RPM
Motherboard Fan:  715 RPM
Ambient:          +46.0°C  
CPU:              +41.0°C  

acpitz-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
temp1:        +27.8°C  (crit = +119.0°C)
temp2:        +29.8°C  (crit = +119.0°C)

pch_skylake-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +53.0°C  

radeon-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:        +58.5°C  (crit = +120.0°C, hyst = +90.0°C)

logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ sensors | awk '/Processor Fan:/ {print $3 " RPM"}'
929 RPM
logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$ sensors | awk '/Motherboard Fan:/ {print $3 " RPM"}'

716 RPM
logansfury@OptiPlex-5040:~$

Thank you so very much for teaching me how to do this tweak to the system!

I am going to make a backup of my conky.conf and get to work on adding a Fan Speeds field to my HUD system-stats

[Logansfury]

WAZOO!!!

I GOT IT!

Successful edit of fan information into the conky file and successful display!

I even hunted down the fan icon from the conky symbols!

Check it out: https://imgur.com/a/2PSMu7f