[ltp] Running with line power and no battery

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008, Dom wrote:
> Are you saying that I shouldn't trust the information gkrellm gives me?

gkrellm talks to my kernel code.  Yes, I am telling you gkrellm pulls the
labels out of its own arse, and that they might well be incorrect so
trusting them is unwise.

They're correct for some thinkpads, but not all.  And the best list there is
about these labels is in ThinkWiki and thinkpad-acpi's documentation, AFAIK.
Maybe someone in the thinkpad forums has also good data we could add to
thinkwiki, but I found no such posts so far.

Ok, I just looked at gkrellm code, and it is as bad as I expected.  And it
is outdated as all heck, make sure you're using the hwmon mode and not their
ibm-acpi mode.

> 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?

The HDD one is incorrect with an almost 100% chance.  You want your HDD's
temperature, ask it through hddtemp (or gkrellm's hdd temperature sensor),
because if it is gkrelm's ibm-acpi's sensor, it is a sensor known to be the
HDD only on the R51 (and to be something completely different on some
others, etc).

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh