Program to monitor temp and adjust fan speed and/or cpu voltage?

[Kadarin]

Running Linux Mint 8 on an Asus P5Q board with an E8500 and 4GB RAM. The motherboard comes with a Windows utility that allows to adjust fan speeds and cpu voltage for both performance and for quietness and power saving. Does a similar such utility exist for Linux?

 

[KeypoX]

sensors applet to monitor.

 

[MrColin]

I don't know of any that let you adjust anything, I use conky's built in functions in addition to some output from lm-sensors and nvidia-settings. I would stick with the BIOS for making adjustments as bugs in such an application could be disasterous if it over volted something.

 

[Rifter]

i agree with the above poster, stick to the the BIOS for stuff like that.

 

[Kadarin]

i agree with the above poster, stick to the the BIOS for stuff like that.

Will do. (Even though I'm more looking for power saving and quiet than for performance.)

 

[Colt45]

Often fans are off the smbus... install lm-sensors, see which sensors it detects, look up datasheet, find if that sensor controls fan, write small script using i2cset.

I had this noisy ass server I had to do that on. Thing was driving me insane.