Re: [lm-sensors] it8705: nonsense temperature readings

[Agile Aspect <agile.aspect@gmail.com>]

Incidentally, if you have rack mounted computers in a computer room
with centralized air conditioning, then it's highly likely you have cold
and hot spots in the computer room.

Hence, the assumption that thermostat temperature should be equal
to the computer temperature may not be valid.

Hector Lahoz Grañena wrote:
> Hello
> I've been interested for some time in power management and ACPI.
> Well, I've come to the conclusion that the first step to achieve power management
> and (most important) a silent computer is good temperature readings. So I had a look
> and I found that the reading was completely meaningless. The CPU temperature showed
> 20 degrees Celsius 1 min. after power-on, when the room temperature was 25.
> I got the datasheet of the it8705 (not a real specification, but is all I have) and
> found 3 registers called "thermal diode zero degree adjustment". I also found that
> the driver (version 2.6.24.2) does not use them. I've been playing around with theese
> registers but I don't know which is the correct value to store there. I suppose it
> depends on the diode used. The motherboard is a Biostar P4VTB.
> I wonder iwhether the chip could be connected to tne internal diode of the
> Pentium 4 or is it an external one on the motherboard. Really, the manufacturers
> don't give much information. I wouldn't need it if they did things the right way.
>
> i don't mean to achieve a lab accurate reading, but currently it is useless.
> If you could help me in some extent I would really appreciate it.
>
>
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