Re: how do I read CPU temperature in ACPI? (w/ P5WD2 motherboard)

[Michael Thonke <iogl64nx@gmail.com>]

David Madore schrieb:

>Hi.  I apologize for what is surely a stupid question: I understand
>that ACPI should be able to tell me what my CPU's temperature is (I
>have a sever overheating problem and I am trying to solve it by
>underclocking somewhat, but I need to be able to read the temperature
>to do anything worth while), but no matter what ACPI modules I load, I
>can't find any hint of a CPU temperature reading anywhere below
>/proc/acpi (the /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/ directory, for example,
>remains empty).
>
>That's with the "thermal", "processor" and "fan" modules loaded (and a
>few others; full listing follows signature).  I tried to load the
>asus_acpi module also, since I have an ASUS motherboard (a P5WD2
>Premium - precise details are given below signature), but I got a "No
>such device" error.  Does that mean my motherboard is unsupported and
>I cannot read my CPU temperature at all?  (But I thought the whole
>_point_ of ACPI was that it was an abstraction away from the hardware:
>so why is there such a thing as "Asus" ACPI?)  Or else, what am I
>doing wrong?
>
>  
>
Hello David,

you will have no luck. I also have this Mainboard in my test rig.
1.) The Super/IO Winbond W83627EHG-A is not supported yet by lm_sensors2 
or any driver I know of.
2.) I also can't get acpi temperature on Gigabyte 955X Royal and 925Xe 
Mobo, Abit 925XE, ASUS P5AD2-E 925XE, P5WD2 955X too.

The ASUS P5WD2 also has some **EXECUTABLE CODE*** in ACPI Table that 
cause some errors here..regarding ACPI stuff *sigh*

But on the Gigabyte they use a IT8212F Super IO so you can use lm_sensors2.

I hope I could help a bit.

Greets

-- 
Michael Thonke
IT-Systemintegrator /
System- and Softwareanalyist