Hi David, hi Carren, > On Jan 12, 2008 8:58 PM, Carren Stuart <kiwionabike at xnet.co.nz> wrote: > > I'm running OpenSUSE 10.3 on an Acer Travelmate laptop with an Intel Core Duo > > 1.6GHz processor. > > > > I finally figured out how to get lmsensors running and configured so that I > > could get my hdd temps showing up in gkrellm. Note: lm-sensors doesn't have anything to do with hard-disk drive temperature. HDD temperature is retrieved through SMART and we don't have any support for that. On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:37:32 -0700, David Hubbard wrote: > The coretemp readings come from a digital temperature sensor inside > the processor. The processor provides PCI device entries which access > these internal sensors. Note: while this is true of AMD CPUs (k8temp is a PCI driver) this isn't how Intel CPUs work. The coretemp driver reads the temperature values from MSRs (model-specific registers) i.e. from the CPU directly. -- Jean Delvare
