On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 18:02 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > My laptop is a Dell Latitude D810 and the Desktop is a Optiplex GX880. > > Neither of them have a BIOS that allows one to turn on or turn off acpi. > > > You normally do not have a choice of turning on and off acpi - may > have a choice between acpi and apm. You can tell the kernel not to > use acpi, or to use apm with the different acpi and apm options. But > your machines may not support apm. Neither aqpci not apm are mentioned. > > > The variables in the /proc directory are kernel created variables that > > have nothing to do with the sensors group of programs. Applying a cat to > > them is no different in GNOME than it is in KDE. Just as you would not > > expect cat-ing cpuinfo to be different in different Desktop Managers. > > > True. But the /proc/acpi is created by what the various acpi modules > can detect. If the BIOS does not support something in the standard > way, then it is not going to be there, unless someone has created a > module to support it. This is why you have things like the > toshiba_acpi.ko module. > > When it comes to displaying the information, you get it presented in > different forms depending on what program you use. > > > sensor-detect did not detect any sensors that would monitor any hardware > > components on either machine. Yet I cold display the temp of the CPU on > > the laptop as described above. it seems clear to me that the kernel does > > not detect any temperature sensors on the desktop so I am clear out of > > luck. > > > Did sensor-detect detect anything? Did you let it try all the > different buses it asked about? I have run into sensors that are > "attached" to the ISA bus, even though the motherboard does not have > any ISA slots. (Built in serial/parallel ports are usually ISA.) You > may also find that the same sensor is used by sensors and acpi. > > Mikkel sensors-detect did not dedect any sensor that would monitor a hardware component of any kind.But clearly a temperature sensor was detected b the kernel on the laptop, > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- ======================================================================= My life is a patio of fun! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
