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. > -- ======================================================================= This screen intentionally left blank. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
