Andy Green wrote: >> Does anyone understand the output of "sensors" >> under the lm-sensors program? > > If you read the docs for lm_sensors you can see that the interpretation > it does on the raw reading from the temperature sensor is grossly > different depending on the type on sensor, the motherboard, phase of > moon and so on, and there is nothing to check you have the correct > sensor approximation or to calibrate it. I did read the documentation that comes with FC-6 lm-sensors. But as you say, it is not much help. > It's better to see if you can get the temperature from /proc/acpi, where > the BIOS on the motherboard (AIUI) has done the conversion to > centigrade. At least the BIOS has a better chance to match what sensor > is on the motherboard. Unfortunately, /proc/acpi/thermal_zone is empty on this desktop computer (Asus K8V-F Athlon 64) even though I have compiled it into the kernel. In fact that is true on all three of my desktops (the other two being Sempron and PIII). As far as I can see, this acpi entry is more or less restricted to laptops. At least lm-sensors gives some response, even if it is incomprehensible ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
