thermal information (was Re: Radeon 9700 Overheating???

[Elton Woo]

Tom Mitchell wrote:

>On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Matt Brei wrote:
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>
>>Yes, the fan is running.  I always check the fan.
>>On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 23:02, Elton Woo wrote:
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>>>>Right away I shut down and opened up the case to feel the video card and
>>>>sure enough it was running quite hot.  I didn't feel like messing with
>>>>it so I just left the machine off so it could cool down  over night.  At
>>>>        
>>>>
>
>How can the thermal and fan speed information that the BIOS
>screens are happy to display see be seen from Linux?
>  
>
I know this is feasible (I haven't done it myself). You can go to the 
fedora-list
and / or shrike-list archives, and you'll find the pertinent discussions 
and solutions
for enabling this.

HTH,

Elton ;-)

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