Re: how do I read CPU temperature in ACPI? (w/ P5WD2 motherboard)

[Robert Hancock]

David Madore wrote:
> Hi.  I apologize for what is surely a stupid question: I understand
> that ACPI should be able to tell me what my CPU's temperature is (I
> have a sever overheating problem and I am trying to solve it by
> underclocking somewhat, but I need to be able to read the temperature
> to do anything worth while), but no matter what ACPI modules I load, I
> can't find any hint of a CPU temperature reading anywhere below
> /proc/acpi (the /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/ directory, for example,
> remains empty).

Presumably your motherboard/BIOS doesn't export the temperature as an 
ACPI thermal zone. This isn't required..

Likely your best bet is lm_sensors if your board has a sensor chip that 
it supports..

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