On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 01:58:55AM -0500, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Charles, > > On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:32:43 -0500, Charles Wolf wrote: > > Hello, I'm having temperature issues with my chipset, but it's not on > > the support list. I don't know how to help add things, and it sait to > > mail it out to the mailing list, so here it is, I am using a laptop with > > the Mobile Intel PM965 chipset. I'd help make it work, if someone told > > me what I need, or someone can do it themselves. I'm willing to help > > anyway I can. Thank you :D > > Most laptops don't have usable sensors (other than the ACPI thermal > zones and CPU integrated thermal sensors). Anyway we can't say anything > about your specific system without seeing the complete output of the > latest version of sensors-detect: > http://dl.lm-sensors.org/lm-sensors/files/ > > Also please check if the BIOS display voltage or fan speed values. If > it doesn't (as is the case of most laptops) then there's probably no > monitoring chip on this system so nothing we can do. > I had a brief look into the PM965 datasheet (http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/datasheet/316273.pdf). Apparently it has internal temperature sensors. It also supports Intel MEI, which afaik can be accessed to read the chip (and possibly CPU) temperatures. There is a MEI driver in staging, but I don't have any idea how to use it. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
