Speedit kext & hardware Monitor 3.6

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Speedit kext & hardware Monitor 3.6

I love the fact that Increw developed "speedit" CPU temperature monitor kext and now Marcel Bresnik has incorporated its use into his great Hardware Monitor program BUT I just realized that the "kextload" command only loads the kernal extension temporarily and NOT at every startup so that HM can read the sensor.
Can one of you smart guys out there tell me is there is an "elegant" way of having that kext load every boot so HM can automatically use it all the time?
(by elagant I mean not just putting the commands into a shell sctipt that asks for a password every boot)
There's gotta be a way, isn't there?

TIA,
Peter

MBP 15", iMac & G5, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on May 5, 2006 4:01 PM

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Nick A

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May 5, 2006 4:04 PM in response to PeterWor

Hi friend. I don't have an answer to your question, but have a question myself. Where does one find hardware monitor 3.6? Thanks in advance.

Nick

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PeterWor Author

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May 5, 2006 4:07 PM in response to Nick A

Nick,
Go to version tracker or directly to Bresnik's site at...
http://www.bresink.de/osx/HardwareMonitor.html

Its a great program and Marcel is incredibly responsive...

Cheers,
Peter

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Answer 3

May 5, 2006 9:28 PM in response to PeterWor

I’m a little confused. What’s the connection betwen this kernel extension and Bresink’s Hardware Monitor? I upgraded to the new HM just out thinking it was going to give me access to thermal sensors, but I saw nothing new.

Does one need to separately install the kext to allow HM access to the temperature sensor data?

Thanks in advance for whatever answers anyone can supply, assuming the questions make any sense.

Randall Schulz

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Answer 4

May 5, 2006 9:35 PM in response to Randall Schulz

What I found is that, after a restart, the widget doesn't find the temp sensor. But if I run CoreDuoTemp, then the widget works, even after quitting CoreDuoTemp,until the next shutdown/restart.

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Answer 5

May 5, 2006 11:13 PM in response to Allan Leedy

What is CoreDuoTemp and where can it be found? I tried searching various places, including www.increw.com and could not find it. How reputable is its author / vendor?

RRS

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Answer 6

May 5, 2006 11:56 PM in response to Randall Schulz

this is the link. Unfortunately it's all in french. It uses the same .kext without the Terminal window.

http://macbricol.free.fr/coreduotemp/CoreDuoTemp.zip.

EDIT: Harware Monitor works also with CPU temp now.

EDIT 2: Yes, it works with speedit.kext, you have to download it and kextload it separately. HM uses it to access the CPU sensor.

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Answer 7

May 6, 2006 4:37 AM in response to Allan Leedy

I found the same thing on reboot. If I start the CoreDuo Temp app first H/W Monitor works.

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Mr.Macer

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May 6, 2006 5:02 AM in response to PeterWor

theres gotta be a way to do this using applescript, but its been so long since ive used applescript that everything i used to remember is like gone now... Open Terminal bla bla load that .kext file and bla bla vla automatically....

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PeterWor Author

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May 6, 2006 8:11 AM in response to Mr.Macer

Well here's what I know so far. I tried using the sensor with HM and yes its great until you reboot.
So then I tried this...

copy speedit.kext to /System/Library/Extensions

sudo chown -R root:wheel speedit.kext

load the kext

$sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/speedit.kext

Optional - rebuilt the kext cache:

$kextcache -k /System/Library/Extentions

However the kextcache isn't getting rebuilt and so I continually have to reliad the kext to get HM to work.
Can someone take a look at what I'm doind and tell whats is wrong?

TIA,
Peter

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