How to check cpu temperature?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 18:02 -0500, Mikkel wrote: 
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > 
> > My laptop is a Dell Latitude D810 and the Desktop is a Optiplex GX880.
> > Neither of them have a BIOS that allows one to turn on or turn off acpi.
> > 
> You normally do not have a choice of turning on and off acpi - may
> have a choice between acpi and apm. You can tell the kernel not to
> use acpi, or to use apm with the different acpi and apm options. But
> your machines may not support apm.

Neither aqpci not apm are mentioned. 
> 
> > The variables in the /proc directory are kernel created variables that
> > have nothing to do with the sensors group of programs. Applying a cat to
> > them is no different in GNOME than it is in KDE. Just as you would not
> > expect cat-ing cpuinfo to be different in different Desktop Managers.
> > 
> True. But the /proc/acpi is created by what the various acpi modules
> can detect. If the BIOS does not support something in the standard
> way, then it is not going to be there, unless someone has created a
> module to support it. This is why you have things like the
> toshiba_acpi.ko module.
> 
> When it comes to displaying the information, you get it presented in
> different forms depending on what program you use.
> 
> > sensor-detect did not detect any sensors that would monitor any hardware
> > components on either machine. Yet I cold display the temp of the CPU on
> > the laptop as described above. it seems clear to me that the kernel does
> > not detect any temperature sensors on the desktop so I am clear out of
> > luck.
> > 
> Did sensor-detect detect anything? Did you let it try all the
> different buses it asked about? I have run into sensors that are
> "attached" to the ISA bus, even though the motherboard does not have
> any ISA slots. (Built in serial/parallel ports are usually ISA.) You
> may also find that the same sensor is used by sensors and acpi.
> 
> Mikkel
sensors-detect did not dedect any sensor that would monitor a hardware
component of any kind.But clearly a temperature sensor was detected b
the kernel on the laptop, 
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