[ltp] Running with line power and no battery

[Dom]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Hi Adam!
>
> On Sun, 02 Mar 2008, Adam Sloboda wrote:
>   
>> At Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:26:05 +0100,
>> Dom  wrote:
>> [snip]
>>     
>>> And BTW, thanks - I just discovered the sensors.conf file and now I
>>> have a similar sensors output except that I have no way to figure out
>>> what temperatures number 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11 show on my Z61m -
>>> I've searched the Internet unsuccessfully - is there any way to find
>>> out this maybe from IBM, err... Lenovo?
>>> I'm not keen on opening my ThinkPad, finding them on my own and then
>>> cooling them down while having the ThinkPad on... [?? is that how
>>> Milos Popovic did it with his A31 (as reported in ThinkWiki article
>>> titled Thermal Sensors)?]
>>>       
>> gkrellm names most of sensors (and they certainly aren't from
>> lm-sensors and match numbers from /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal).
>>     
>
> I'd recommend the weirdo living behind the bridge as a better bet for blind
> faith than *anything* in a monitoring applet.
>   
Are you saying that I shouldn't trust the information gkrellm gives me?
> You can guess a few of the sensors, they seem to be somewhat standard on
> *most* thinkpads (see the thinkpad-acpi docs or thinkwiki).  But if you want
> to be able to get to this level:
>
> [snip]                                    
>
> Then you need to open up the ThinkPad, find the location of the sensors, and
> also look at everything near the sensor.  The above is for a 26xx T43,
> *only*.
>   
OK, I'm not ready just yet to open my ThinkPad for this. I'm thinking I 
could test CPU, GPU and HDD temperature information given by gkrellm if 
I put a strain on these parts one by one. Now is there any such software 
that would allow me to do that easily or I will have to get creative?

-- 
Dom
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