Re: How to check cpu temperature?

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On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 22:57 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: 
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 08:22 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: 
> >> On my F11 laptop there is a file:
> >> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
> >> when cat-ed displays the temperature of the cpu.
> >>
> >> However there is not such file on my desktop running F11.
> >>
> >> Two questions:
> >> 1. How can I display the cpu temperature on the desktop cpu?
> >> 2. Is is it maybe because my desktop has a dual core cpu?
> > 
> > I appreciate all the responses to the request above and I learnt about
> > sensor related programs but there are some misconceptions floating
> > around that need to be cleared up.
> > 
> > My laptop is a Dell Latitude D810 and the Desktop is a Optiplex GX880.
> > Neither of them have a BIOS that allows one to turn on or turn off acpi.
> > 
> > The variables in the /proc directory are kernel created variables that
> > have nothing to do with the sensors group of programs. Applying a cat to
> > them is no different in GNOME than it is in KDE. Just as you would not
> > expect cat-ing cpuinfo to be different in different Desktop Managers.
> > 
> > sensor-detect did not detect any sensors that would monitor any hardware
> > components on either machine. Yet I cold display the temp of the CPU on
> > the laptop as described above. it seems clear to me that the kernel does
> > not detect any temperature sensors on the desktop so I am clear out of
> > luck.
> > 
> > I have no clue what the plasmoid is so I don't know how that would help.
> > 
> > I will accept any further ideas but I think all is lost.
> 
> Just be sure when you ran sensors-detect that you allowed it to check the ISA 
> and i2c sensors. People ofter decide they don't have an ISA bus, so I thought 
> this was worth repeating.
> 
I had it check all the sensors it presebtewd to be and it found none. 
> 
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