cpu temp

lord-fu · 03-31-2006, 03:27 PM

Hello,

Seeing a post a few threads down made me remember lm_sensors and how I never have been able to get a readout of my cpu temp. I do have acpi in my kernel I double checked to make sure. I do not however have any file in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone.

Code:

root@ATRAEU:/proc/acpi# ls
ac_adapter/  debug_layer  embedded_controller/  fan/             processor/
battery/     debug_level  event                 info             thermal_zone/
button/      dsdt         fadt                  power_resource/  video/
root@ATRAEU:/proc/acpi# cd thermal_zone/
root@ATRAEU:/proc/acpi/thermal_zone# ls -Al
total 0

I have gone the lm_sensors route and never been able to get that going either.

Code:

root@ATRAEU:/proc/acpi/thermal_zone# sensors
Temic PAL-i2c-0-60
Adapter: bt878 #0 [sw]

tveeprom-i2c-0-50
Adapter: bt878 #0 [sw]

I am using an Intel 3ghz cpu, on an Asus p4600e(I am pretty sure thats it) the 2.6.15.3 kernel. I am sure I overlooked something. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance and appreciate all help offered.

cwwilson721 · 03-31-2006, 03:43 PM

I use

Code:

cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature

Gives me my proc temp.

brianthegreat · 03-31-2006, 03:49 PM

Are you using Gnome or KDE?

I'm using gnome with the sensord and the gnome taskbar icon and my system temps are displayed the entire time logged into gnome. If you want a little icon on your task bar you might want that that into account.

Of course you have to configure your sensors but thet is no big deal.

lord-fu · 03-31-2006, 04:14 PM

I have no subdir's in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone and most of the time I dont use a WM. Any other ideas?
I do however boot kde to watch tv on occasion.

win32sux · 03-31-2006, 05:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwwilson721

I use

Code:

cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature

Gives me my proc temp.

hi... do you know if there's a similarly easy way to get the cpu temp on an APM box?? (without having to install extra stuff)

cwwilson721 · 03-31-2006, 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by win32sux

hi... do you know if there's a similarly easy way to get the cpu temp on an APM box?? (without having to install extra stuff)

I have nothing with APM...sorry

As for not having those files/directories, you will need to compile in just about everything in ACPI.... look at my kernel config file here, and adapt to your hardware....

cs-cam · 03-31-2006, 08:08 PM

lord_fu: I had similar problems with my old computer but found a cool little app that did work and I still use it because it has easy to parse console output

Great for conky.

http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/sh.../download.html

lord-fu · 03-31-2006, 08:57 PM

Thank you I will give it a go.

-=Graz=- · 03-31-2006, 09:17 PM

ccwilson - just having a look at this myself and i seem to have 2 x places to check and both report different results.
#cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRS/temperature @ 50 degrees
#cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRC/temperature @ 54 degrees....

very strange..