Checking CPU temperature

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 15:52:57 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>>>>> cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
>>>>>
>>>>> This is what I use to check temps if I feel like my sensors widget is
>>>>> not
>>>>> right.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Mark, but
>>>>
>>>> $ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
>>>> cat: /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature: No such file or directory
>>>> $
>>>
>>> Hmm.  You don't have ACPI on your system at all?  YOu might want to poke
>>> around /proc, that metric may be located in a slightly different location
>>> than mine, but on all my systems (laptops, desktop, Fedora or Gentoo)
>>> it's
>>> in that location.
>>
>> I have just installed acpi with
>>
>> yum install acpi
>>
>> but
>>
>> # cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
>> cat: /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature: No such file or directory
>> # dir /proc/acpi/thermal_zone
>> #
>
> Did you start it?

No. How can I start it? I have tried

# /sbin/services/acpi start
bash: /sbin/services/acpi: No such file or directory
#

Paul




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