Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> writes: > Hi David, > >> I see my model (T60p) in >> http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2006-April/015983.html >> Does that mean anything, or is >> http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/README.thinkpad still the >> latest news? > > It's completely unrelated. The hdaps driver reports the acceleration of > the laptop. It's meant to park the hard disk driver heads if the laptop > falls, for example. It will work on your laptop. But it's not a > hardware monitoring chip in the common sense of the term. > > The SMBus is still blacklisted on IBM systems based on a PIIX4 chip. > Your laptop probably has a more recent chip (Intel 82801), but anyway > we've never seen a Thinkpad with a useable hardware monitoring chip as > far as I remember, so it's probably not worth investigating. If you > want to know the temperature laptop, try the "thermal" acpi driver > instead. Thanks. I think I may already have that. "acpi -t" does display two thermal zones. Somehow my gnome-sensors applet is also getting a reading for the GPU (in a category called "ibm-acpi"), which is alarmingly high. What I'm really after is much more at the application level; something like "ksensors", which can help me keep the laptop running optimally for whatever situation I'm in, and will let me switch between profiles easily if I want battery life, performance, or etc. However, the ksensor package depends on lm-sensors, which according to that page might be doing terrible things to my BIOS (any chance _that's_ outdated info?) I already had ksensors installed, and it seemed to be working OK, but took it out when I read that. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com
