In addition to what Mark said... Several of the sensors include extensive low pass filtering and averaging specifically to eliminate jitter in the low order bits and provide a consistent reading. Some chips can have this filtering disabled, but that runs counter to the original purpose and intent of lm_sensors... :v) John Siegler wrote: > Hello, > > I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask, but I am simply > wondering what is the best way to obtain the raw readings (low order > bits) from the sensors, in order to calculate randomness. I read in > the values from the /proc/sys/dev/sensors files (using 2.4 kernel), > but the values did not seem to contain the low order bits since the > fan speed and cpu temp did not change much. Is there an easy way to > access this data using libsensors, or will that give me the same > not-very-random data? Or is there a driver available? > > Thank you for your time, > John > >
