Re: Help needed tracking out hardware problem...

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Mauri,

Try to use lm_sensors... It reads the sensors available in the
motherboard. All you need to do is find the correct offsets to the
sensor configurations...
The package is available in the fedora.us repository...

--
Pedro Macedo
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 02:18, Mauri Sahlberg wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  As the guarantee of my laptop nears it's end the laptop has started to
>  have unwanted symptoms. Namely it shuts itself down without no apparent
>  reason. My guess is that it suffers from overheating and bails out.
>  Usually I get this after an hour of work and running a long sequence of
>  database queries (selects and inserts, about 20000 inserts and selects).
>  I've been told that the board and processor probably have built in
>  sensors for heat and several other goodies that could help me to
>  diagnose the problem but I have no clue whatsoever how to read them. I
>  guess I need something compiled in kernel and a suitable client program
>  to record and display the values in real time. Any suggestions or
>  keywords to throw in for google?
>  
>  Regards,
>  -- 
>  Mauri "mos" Sahlberg	Pretax Systems Oy	[phone]
>  Technology Evangelist	Pääskylänrinne 8	[phone]
>  Bsc Computer Science	FIN-00500 Helsinki	www.pretax.net
>  Development Manager	Finland
>