On Sunday 28 April 2013 12:23:12 Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
On 27 April 2013 21:56, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@wlandres.net wrote:
This led me to look for any program that monitors things like the state (including temperature) of the system (e.g. CPU temperature or whatever), but I didn't find anything.
Any suggestions as to what I should look for?
Conky is one such application.
http://conky.sourceforge.net/index.html
running "classic Gnome" (thank God), and for various to
You may need to follow steps here:
http://wiki.conky.cc/index.php?title=FAQ#Conky_won.27t_stop_flickering
reasons it has reached the state where Debian-sourced updates or further software can no longer be installed off repositories. So anything new would have to be installed from scratch.
Source code download here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/conky/files/conky/
GKrellM, if it still exists, might be another option.
Regards, Srdjan
I use gkrellm, so it is still available, but when confronted with a similar intermittent powerdown problem the only thing that worked was replacing main board, processor and memory. Temps showed nothing special. It could be temps on northbridge (think it was northbridge). I did get a special northbridge cooler, which of course is not an option on laptop, but before I could put it in the crashing got so bad I just bought new internals.
You can probably get a new battery very cheap on ebay. Ones for thinkpads are amazingly cheap.
Al