[ltp] Overheating again

Peter Lemken linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 6 Jul 2005 09:13:50 +0000


On Wednesday 06 July 2005 08:59, Bob Hentges wrote:
> 
> Now, as you seem to have found a way to monitor the CPU temperature on a
> IBM Thinkpad, I would be glad to know how you did it, so that I could
> check my CPU temperature as well. To give some information on my
> platform: I got a T42p running Ubuntu.

ibm-acpi.sf.net is what you are looking for. It provides a kernel modules 
that, when loaded with 'modprobe ibm-acpi experimental=1', enables you to 
read temperature values for the CPU, WiFi-Card, GPU, HDD and battery 
under /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal

HTH

Peter Lemken
Berlin