16-sep-05 Hello Jean: I guess that settles it. I'll just have to live with what ACPI offers. Many thanks for your help. Brgds Bob On 9/15/05, Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > > I already have the thermal_zone: > > ls /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/ > > cooling_mode polling_frequency state temperature trip_points > > > > Additionally, GKRELLM recognizes and displays the cpu temperature. > > Most likely it reads it straight from > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature. > > > However, I tried your suggestion: > > > > 45 torus:~> sudo modprobe thermal > > FATAL: Module thermal not found. > > > > (So I guess the thermal zone is set up on this machine using a different > > module?). > > No, it simply means that you have it built into your kernel. If not, you > wouldn't have a /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0 directory. > > > 49 torus:~> sudo i2cdump 0 0x6a > > (...) > > 50 torus:~> sudo i2cdump 0 0x10 > > No chances these were hardware monitoring chips with such addresses. > > > In reviewing the previous 'sensors-detect' output I noticed that it found > > a "sensor" but that it is flagged 'no hardware monitoring capabilites': > > It found a Super-I/O chip rather than a sensor. We have sensors-detect > list these even when they do not include sensors so that we don't have > to continuously check whether unrecognized Super-I/O chips fall into > that category when people report about them. > > > There is no 'Hardware Monitor' section in the BIOS. > > This is well in line with the lack of lm_sensors-supported chip. > > I don't think there is anything more to be tried on this system, ACPI > seems to be your only monitoring information source. It's not as > powerful as what lm_sensors usually offers, but still better than > nothing at all. > > -- > Jean Delvare > -- rhp.lpt at gmail.com
