Author Topic: An XWorkplace CPU Temperature Widget for AMD CPUs  (Read 10535 times)

Lars

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Re: An XWorkplace CPU Temperature Widget for AMD CPUs
« Reply #30 on: March 30, 2025, 12:07:16 am »
Hi Lars

Any chance of a standalone/non-widget version in the future?


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Pete

Yes, sure. I just thought that everybody would be keen on an XCenter widget ...

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Re: An XWorkplace CPU Temperature Widget for AMD CPUs
« Reply #31 on: March 30, 2025, 01:14:01 pm »
Bad news: I found the document for Family 15h AMD CPUs and not for Family 19h as I claimed (and I updated the test proggie accordingly).

According to what I found on the internet, the document for Family 19h (Zen Architecture, including Ryzen CPUs) is under NDA (thank you AMD). Therefore, I can only hope that it works as it did for Family 15h but I am not optimistic. They seem to change the mechanism to read CPU temperature pretty often.

I think all of this is a hopeless case. Doug, if your system properly supports reading the temperature via ACPI, then this is certainly the best way to go. Does the conventional CPU Temperature widget of the monitor widget classes work for you ? That is based on ACPI. I yes, an AMD CPU specific widget is completely unnecessary for you.
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Re: An XWorkplace CPU Temperature Widget for AMD CPUs
« Reply #32 on: March 30, 2025, 08:52:03 pm »
My ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 2024 comes with an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS CPU.

The CPU Temperature Widget shipped with ArcaOS 5.1.1 (Native Installation, Windows 11 and Linux Mint as well native) works out of the box, see attached picture.




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Re: An XWorkplace CPU Temperature Widget for AMD CPUs
« Reply #33 on: March 31, 2025, 05:24:37 am »
Lars,

I tried your new version and it doesn't work on my processor.  Thank you for trying.

The cpu temperature widget contained in standard xcenter monitor.dll also doesn't work.  I think I saw somewhere that ACPI on this machine does not report temperature in the proper way - and my memory was I saw that in the acpid log file - but I turned logging back on and now can't find that message.  So maybe I am mis-remembering this.

This is only a 6 core processor, with the factory cooler for the processor, in a desktop case with good ventilation.  I am not too worried about excessive processor temperatures.  I don't compile large projects, like Dave or Jack.  I have a wattage meter on the machine and the highest consumption spike I have seen is 120 watts - and that is during bootup.

Thanks again Lars for your work on this, and all the other projects you have done for OS/2.

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Re: An XWorkplace CPU Temperature Widget for AMD CPUs
« Reply #34 on: April 01, 2025, 04:07:11 pm »
Hey Lars!

@Dariusz: I have now made an XCenter Widget of it. Can you test ?

By the way: having the SYSCALL driver installed is no longer necessary. You do not need anything besides the Widget.
Source is included.

Appreciate the update, however I have never actually used the XCenter itself, nor any of the widgets. I'm in the thick of a lot of project work at the moment, thus my late response, but let me come up for air over the next week or so and I'll try to do a test install here.

As always: Thank You!