On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 17:50 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > On most laptops you can get one temperature from ACPI. Try loading the > "thermal" and "fan" modules, then take a look > in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone and /proc/acpi/fan, respectively. > thanks for the suggestions. i have loaded the "thermal" and "fan" modules, however, the directories /proc/acpi/thermal_zone and /proc/acpi/fan are still empty. well, i guess that means there is no monitoring tool whatsoever. > You might also have a temperature sensor in your hard disk drive, which > you can read using smartmontools, or the dedicated tool "hddtemp". I > don't much like it because you need to be root to get the information. > > Hope that helps, with hddtemp, at least i can get the temperature of my HD. thanks again..
