Mauri, Try to use lm_sensors... It reads the sensors available in the motherboard. All you need to do is find the correct offsets to the sensor configurations... The package is available in the fedora.us repository... -- Pedro Macedo On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 02:18, Mauri Sahlberg wrote: > Hi, > > As the guarantee of my laptop nears it's end the laptop has started to > have unwanted symptoms. Namely it shuts itself down without no apparent > reason. My guess is that it suffers from overheating and bails out. > Usually I get this after an hour of work and running a long sequence of > database queries (selects and inserts, about 20000 inserts and selects). > I've been told that the board and processor probably have built in > sensors for heat and several other goodies that could help me to > diagnose the problem but I have no clue whatsoever how to read them. I > guess I need something compiled in kernel and a suitable client program > to record and display the values in real time. Any suggestions or > keywords to throw in for google? > > Regards, > -- > Mauri "mos" Sahlberg Pretax Systems Oy +358 207 44 2228 > Technology Evangelist Pääskylänrinne 8 +358 207 44 2201 > Bsc Computer Science FIN-00500 Helsinki www.pretax.net > Development Manager Finland >