[ltp] Overheating again

[John Shane]

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:53:36 -0400
Carlos Maldonado <kamihacker@sohost.net> wrote:

> John Shane wrote:
> > On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 05:16:26 -0400
> > Carlos Maldonado <kamihacker@sohost.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>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.
> >>
> >>install gkrellm 2.2.6 or later
> >>
> >>it has support for all the sensors in my thinkpad (x40)
> > 
> > 
> > Carlos,  is "thermal_zone " that gkrellm monitors the CPU alone or does it
> > include other parts of the system?  John
> 
> in my x40 it shows sensors for HD, CPU, Batt1, Batt2, GPU, miniPCI apart 
> from the thermal zone you mention
> 
> do you have ibm_acpi module installed? maybe that's necessary, although 
> I'm not sure
> 
> Carlos

Good question.  The kernel config file says CONFIG_ACPI=y and
CONFIG_ACPI_IBM=m.  But there is no ibm_acpi module in the list when I run
lsmod. More detective work to do.  John