How to check cpu temperature?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Oct 16 15:25:01 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 14:29 +0100, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: 
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > On my F11 laptop there is a file:
> > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
> > when cat-ed displays the temperature of the cpu.
> >
> > However there is not such file on my desktop running F11.
> >
> > Two questions:
> > 1. How can I display the cpu temperature on the desktop cpu?
> > 2. Is is it maybe because my desktop has a dual core cpu?
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> I think that your desktop doesn't support ACPI or maybe you should
> enable it on the BIOS Setup.
> Check the manual of your motherboard/desktop for more information.

I see nowhere in the BIOS to enable acpi. cpuinfo says it is a cpu parameter.
In proc: acpi/thermal_zone exists but the directory THM does not, so it
is confusing.
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