From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how do I read CPU temperature in ACPI? (w/ P5WD2 motherboard)
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:00:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42FA9525.7020603@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A6sY-4zI-27@gated-at.bofh.it>
David Madore wrote:
> 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).
Presumably your motherboard/BIOS doesn't export the temperature as an
ACPI thermal zone. This isn't required..
Likely your best bet is lm_sensors if your board has a sensor chip that
it supports..
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Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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2005-08-11 0:00 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-08-10 21:38 how do I read CPU temperature in ACPI? (w/ P5WD2 motherboard) David Madore
2005-08-10 22:12 ` Michael Thonke
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