[ltp] R51: CPU-temp, fan-speed, etc.

[Alejandro Bonilla]

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Michael Gaber wrote:

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> Ingo van Lil wrote:
> | On 16 Mar 2005, Dorpmüller wrote:
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> |>Since the usage of lmsensors is not recommended on Thinkpads it 
> would be
> |>nice to have a recommendation for grabbing CPU-temp, fan-speed, etc. 
> on a
> |>Thinkpad R51.
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> | CPU temperature is easy, you can read that from
> | /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature. Fan speed on R51 isn't
> | supported, yet.
> |
> |         Cheers,
> |             Ingo
> |
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> fan speed is supported via the ibm_acpi driver, but i can't get gkrellm
> to read it 

I can't get gkrellm to read my CPU, only the HDD, acpi -t shows the temp 
and also the cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature. But not with 
gkrellm

with ibm_acpi, can you get the info by cat'ing another file?