This is a recommended update.
- Added support for 9 more machines, for a total of 13. In addition to the Power Mac G4 MDD, the June 2004 Power Mac G5, the 2004 iMac G5 and the 15-inch MacBook Pro, we now support the Late 2005 Power Mac G5 (including the Quad), the April 2004 and October 2005 15-inch PowerBook G4s, the 2005 12-inch PowerBook G4 and every current Intel Mac, i.e. every Mac with an Intel Core 1 Solo or Duo (”Yonah”) processor.
- The timer now disables during sleep. When the machine is about to go to sleep, MenuTemperature now stops polling. When the machine has woken up, polling resumes. This will hopefully fix sleeping issues which some have experienced.
- Various minor performance optimizations and other enhancements.
If someone could provide more localizations, I would gladly add those.
P.S. (this is only relevant for users on Intel Macs): As someone has pointed out, MenuTemperature currently doesn’t work well if you have set it to launch on log in, unless the SpeedIt kernel extension is already otherwise running. This will be fixed in a future release. For the time being, I recommend in this case that you add the line
kextload /Library/Extensions/speedit.kext
to your /etc/rc file, before the last line, so the end of the file should look like this:
touch /var/run/.systemStarterRunning
if [ "${VerboseFlag}" != "-v" ] ; then
/usr/libexec/WaitingForLoginWindow
fi
kextload /Library/Extensions/speedit.kext
exit 0
You will need to authenticate in order to save this change. After a reboot, SpeedIt should run automatically, and MenuTemperature will recognize this and no longer ask for a password.
Others' Thoughts
Comment on June 2nd, 2006 at 1:37 am
Do I miss something? I have no Extension folder in the Library.
Comment on June 2nd, 2006 at 9:57 am
When you run MenuTemperature on an Intel machine, and SpeedIt isn’t already running, you should get an authorization prompt. When you respond to this by entering your password, SpeedIt will be installed into
/Library/Extensions/. After that, you can follow my instructions above for subsequent times.Comment on June 4th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
Your fix for the Intel Mac works a treat. It saves me entering my password twice on logon, which was becoming a real pain in the rear! Now I can relax and work away with the temps being monitored, and my lap being fried (on a hot day). Thanks!
Comment on June 5th, 2006 at 1:19 am
I’m glad this workaround is good enough for you.
Comment on June 6th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Afterinstall (under MacOSX 10.4.6 on PowerMac quad, I find MenuMeters network plot (in Apple menubar) has disappeared. How can I uninstall MenuTemperature?
Comment on June 6th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
MenuTemperature does not interfere with MenuMeteres. In fact, I have always used both in conjunction with each other, and never had problems with that setup. Your problem must be elsewhere. Try restarting SystemUIServer (by opening Activity Monitor and quitting it there; it’ll then relaunch itself).
By quitting it.
Comment on September 30th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
10.4.8 must use a new kernel, because I’ve been using MenuTemperature for many months, but after updating to 10.4.8 yesterday, my system can barely run at all while MenuTemperature is running.
I can still move the mouse, but anything I click with it takes at least 30 seconds to acknowledge that it was clicked. I also have my clock set to show seconds as well, and the seconds on the clock go at least as long between updates as well. As soon as I quit MenuTemperature, system performance recovers. I did an additional reboot, just to check, and also exited and restarted MenuTemperature several times, but the results were always the same.
This is on a MacBook Pro.
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