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Hardware monitoring program that works with 10.7? iStat is out for now :/

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I am trying to find a program that will let me monitor my hardware as my macbook pro is getting really hot when I am running Lion.

I tried iStat and it does not work.

I also looked for something I could use in terminal and found that nothing is installed to monitor hardware in terminal.
 
ClassicII said:
I am trying to find a program that will let me monitor my hardware as my macbook pro is getting really hot when I am running Lion.

I tried iStat and it does not work.

I also looked for something I could use in terminal and found that nothing is installed to monitor hardware in terminal.
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Istat works just great for me on lion
 
The widget version of iStat and iStat nano are working. dashboard is better in lion, as it is more accessible in my opinion.
 
Blakeco123 said:
istat menus doesnt work but stat pro, the widget, does. its almost the exact same as stat menus but in the dashboard instead.
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Errr, I think I know my my own computer better than you. Istat MENU is working fine. I'm looking at it right now. Version 3, on Lion. If it doesn't work for you that's different and clearly there's an issue with your configuration. I'm assuming you're on a dual core proc as singles are no longer supported by 10.7
 
heppy said:
Errr, I think I know my my own computer better than you. Istat MENU is working fine. I'm looking at it right now. Version 3, on Lion. If it doesn't work for you that's different and clearly there's an issue with your configuration. I'm assuming you're on a dual core proc as singles are no longer supported by 10.7
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Thats great that it is working for you. But it is not working for any one else.

This is from a fresh install on multiple different kinds of machines so you can not say its a configuration issue.
 
iStats menu is working fine for me, although I did an upgrade not a fresh install. Those of you who can't get it working; what is not working? Will it refuse to install because of the OS version, will it simply not run once installed, etc...? If we knew what exactly didn't work we could probably get it fixed. Since its working for me (and others) who already had it installed in Snow Leopard, I'd say its just failing on the version information. It will probably work if you manually install it using pacifist, etc..
 
Fresh install, here.

Got it installed no problem, opens fine, press a switch to turn a monitor on, but nothing happens, a second later it reverts to the 'off' position, same with every monitor. No thing happens in the menu bar at all.
 
geiman said:
iStats menu is working fine for me, although I did an upgrade not a fresh install. Those of you who can't get it working; what is not working? Will it refuse to install because of the OS version, will it simply not run once installed, etc...? If we knew what exactly didn't work we could probably get it fixed. Since its working for me (and others) who already had it installed in Snow Leopard, I'd say its just failing on the version information. It will probably work if you manually install it using pacifist, etc..
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It installs just fine, but when you go to "turn on" a section (with the little slider), nothing happens. It moved to the "on" position for a few seconds, then when it fails to activate it automatically switches back to "off".

There's no warnings or anything pertaining to an unrecognized operation system, it just appears to be incompatible with Lion. I uninstalled, reinstalled, reregistered, still no luck.
 
Gotcha; that sounds like a versioning thing; obviously the code works or it wouldn't work on our machines, so I'd bet if you could dig through the plist's and find where it turns things on you could get it working. I'm replacing the timing chain on my Jeep right now, but when I get done with that I'll take a look. Since mine were already set up it is fine, but when you go to turn them on for the first time and it looks for compatibility it is bombing out.

Also, might not be a bad idea to email the developer if iStat menu; they would probably appreciate any feedback with Lion. I know the developer of 1Password already is asking for feedback, I'm sure they're all scrambling right now.
 
iStat Menus workaround

Hi guys, Long Nguyen Hai, a web developer in Vietnam, posted a workaround!

http://www.webvampires.net/post/3579438175/os-x-lion-workaround-for-istat-menus

I've copied the important parts below, in case the URL doesn't show up because I'm new to this forum.

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What I did is downloading the latest version of MenuCracker from SourceForge, overwrite the old MenuCracker.menu within iStat Menus.app. Optionally, kill the iStatLocal daemon process and overwrite the MenuCracker.menu file at /Library/Application Support/iStat Local/extra/

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And the link to MenuCracker is:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/men...ucracker-2.0b1/MenuCracker-2.0b1.dmg/download
 
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colinng said:
Hi guys, Long Nguyen Hai, a web developer in Vietnam, posted a workaround!
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Thank you. I integrated the recent MenuCracker.menu into the installer package of iStat Menus 2.0 and so it worked right after installation on Lion GM.

Cheers!
 
iStatmenu was working fine when i upgraded from snow leopard to lion but doesn't work anymore ever since i did a fresh install of lion
 
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