Kernel module 'thermal'

[Mark Haney]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 09 April 2007, Andy Green wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> I've not had much luck with lm-sensors on this box, so when LXF ran an
>>> article on it this month I decided to try again.  The first thing it
>>> talks about is the kernel module 'thermal'.
>>>
>>> # lsmod | grep thermal
>>> #
>>> # modprobe thermal
>>> FATAL: Module thermal not found.
>>>
>>> It goes on to say that you can type 'acpi -t' to get the same output:
>>>
>>> acpi -t
>>> -bash: acpi: command not found
>>>
>>> Perhaps this is why lm-sensors can't get any info?
>>>
>>> Any hints?
>> It's built into the Fedora kernel
>>
>> CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y
>>
>> Try, eg,
>>
>> cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature
>>
>> Where the * is defined by your BIOS, eg, THR1.
>>
> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/ is empty!
> 
> Anne
> 

Sounds to me like ACPI is either not in the kernel or you've added 
noacpi acpi=off to the kernel boot parameters.



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Mark Haney
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