[ltp] Overheating again

Carlos Maldonado linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:53:36 -0400


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