Conky and

[jimmybgood9]

I've seen a lot folks here using conky here. Hope you can help me with this. My system reports the cpu frequency ignoring the fact that the main bus is overclocked. That is, it assumes the main bus running at 200MHz, while it's actually running 22.5% faster than that.

So is there a way to scale the reported frequencies in conky so that I see the real cpu frequencies.

I can add a line like:

$CPU frequency: $freq*1.225

but that just shows:

CPU frequency: 800*1.225

What I really want is for conky to actually perform the multiplication so I get:

CPU frequency: 980

Any thoughts?

 

[lxskllr]

You could cheat, and just add the text line :^D

I've done a bit of looking, and don't see how to adjust measurements. It works as-is on my system.

Edit:
To make it more automated, maybe you could call an external script, and display the results. That way, if you change your overclock, conky will automatically update.

 

[jimmybgood9]

Well, I came up with this.

${color grey}Frequency (in MHz):$color ${execi 1.0 echo "`tail -1 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq | tr -d '\n'` * 1.225 / 1000" | bc}

I do like to update it regularly, because the frequency does change in a range of about 3 and a half to one. From what I've found out, conky will display pretty much any text you dump into it, but it won't evaluate its text objects for export.