Hi. Ive been trying to get acpi working on my emachines m5310 and so far i think i might have been successfull. I have a working battery monitor, my computer shuts down correctly and it seems to be running a bit cooler under linux.

What i really need is something so that i can view my current cpu speed and temperature. Is there anything that i could use to do this that is simple to set up for a newbie?

I have tried to get a util called wmacpimon working. But the instructions on how to get this installed were so poorly written (im my opinion) that i cant get it to work.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!!!

Install SuSE, i've had wonderful sucess with eMachines being 100% compatible with this distro.

try simply type "xosview" which will gave some information on your cpu usage and others. But no temp.

Please, can u post some info on how did u got it working...or so far... I'm trying to get it working on my Dell Lat D600, not too concerned about the temp or the freq, but the system turns off when the battery is empty....no "Save your data or Plug in AcAdapter Message" just ...off..

Thx

SgtBhaji,

First of all when you post this kind of questions please tell what distribution and version u r using !!

First check if the kernel you are running has ACPI installed. You can get linux ACPI patch at acpi.sf.net. A easier way is to use a distro that has ACPI built into the Kernel. You can try SuSE or Mandrake 9.2.

Now coming to detecting if ACPi is working ( assuming that ACPI is installed and acpi is enable in the boot options for the kernel, using lilo or grub)

1. Go to /proc, here you should find a directory called ACPI (/proc/acpi). Here you should have files for ACPI paraeters like battery, cpu, temperature etc.

2. You can go to. /var/log/Kernel/ here check the logs. If ACPI was loaded and working you should see log messages frm the ACPI kernel module.
Nov 25 22:53:18 saideep103 kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS P4B533 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1ffec000
Nov 25 22:53:18 saideep103 kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS P4B533 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1ffec0c0
Nov 25 22:53:18 saideep103 kernel: ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS P4B533 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1ffec030
Nov 25 22:53:18 saideep103 kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 ASUS P4B533 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1ffec058
Nov 25 22:53:18 saideep103 kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS P4B533 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000


Hope this helps.

Regards,

Manas

what about the wireless card, any luck on that?

if you want to monitor your cpu speed and such. check these out. http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/


as for suse being "emachine compatable" thats funny

To get the cpu temps and fan speeds I believe you'll need lmsensors.

Pretty easy to install if you have your kernel sources... There's two packages --
i2c 2.8.0 and lm_sensors-2.8.0

Compile i2c first with a simple make && make install
and then the same with lm_sensors .

There is an easy "QUICKSTART" read in the tarball... read it and follow its instructions

-Shade

I have Mandrake 9.2 installed on my Fujitsu_Siemens Amilo D.

ACPI is running but appears to be crippled for some reason. I can monitor battery power in /proc/acpi but I seem unable to get a correct temperature (it is always 75 degs), and I can't monitor fan rpm's etc.

This may be due to the nature of the board in my laptop. Not sure though.

Also works on Fedora Core 1 with changes in /etc/grub/grub.conf

acpi=on

Fedora is already compiled with acpi but not activated @ boot.

greetz
stevo

Sorry about that, and sorry to drag this thread up again too.

My distribution is Redhat 9. recently i have been taking a break from using it though, as ACPI has been driving me up the wall. My machine is an emachines M5310 and has been a pain as far as ACPI goes.

Has anybody attempted to use the 2.6.0 kernel, and would this make my problems easier to solve?

Thanks again.